Status of quotas on ext3 and reiser?

Status of quotas on ext3 and reiser?

[Ken Brownfield]

I'm about to install a 2TB disk array, and I'd very strongly prefer to
use ext3 or possibly reiser to gain journaling.  Fscking 250GB is
already lethal.

But I also need quotas.  I've noticed that quotas do not appear to be
supported by ext3, but I haven't tried reiser yet.  And I'm not sure
if I simply need new quota userspace tools -- the ones I found were 1994
vintage.  I'm on RH6.2 BTW for this case, and the builtin tools don't
appear to grok ext3.

What is the current viability of quotas on ext3/reiser in a
conservative, production environment?  Is it waiting for the 32-bit UID
mods in 2.4.x, or has quota support been pushed off onto 2.5?  Am I
going to have to make the hard choice of journaling vs quotas? :-/

I couldn't find a definitive answer in the archives; sorry if this is a
FAQ.  I'd bug poor Andrew Morton directly :), but I'm also interested in
the status or reiser vs quotas.

Thanks,
-- 
Ken.
ken@irridia.com

Re: Status of quotas on ext3 and reiser?

[Luigi Genoni]

I am using quota with reiserFS and quota tool 3.04 from slackware-current,
and no problems at all (kernel 2.4.18)


On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Ken Brownfield wrote:

> I'm about to install a 2TB disk array, and I'd very strongly prefer to
> use ext3 or possibly reiser to gain journaling.  Fscking 250GB is
> already lethal.
>
> But I also need quotas.  I've noticed that quotas do not appear to be
> supported by ext3, but I haven't tried reiser yet.  And I'm not sure
> if I simply need new quota userspace tools -- the ones I found were 1994
> vintage.  I'm on RH6.2 BTW for this case, and the builtin tools don't
> appear to grok ext3.
>
> What is the current viability of quotas on ext3/reiser in a
> conservative, production environment?  Is it waiting for the 32-bit UID
> mods in 2.4.x, or has quota support been pushed off onto 2.5?  Am I
> going to have to make the hard choice of journaling vs quotas? :-/
>
> I couldn't find a definitive answer in the archives; sorry if this is a
> FAQ.  I'd bug poor Andrew Morton directly :), but I'm also interested in
> the status or reiser vs quotas.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Ken.
> ken@irridia.com
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Re: Status of quotas on ext3 and reiser?

[Andreas Dilger]

On Apr 01, 2002  21:14 -0600, Ken Brownfield wrote:
> But I also need quotas.  I've noticed that quotas do not appear to be
> supported by ext3, but I haven't tried reiser yet.  And I'm not sure
> if I simply need new quota userspace tools -- the ones I found were 1994
> vintage.  I'm on RH6.2 BTW for this case, and the builtin tools don't
> appear to grok ext3.

That is only because the old quota tools check for "ext2" as the
filesystem type, otherwise they do not activate quotas for that fs.

There are new quota tools at Sourceforge (don't know the project name).

> What is the current viability of quotas on ext3/reiser in a
> conservative, production environment?  Is it waiting for the 32-bit UID
> mods in 2.4.x, or has quota support been pushed off onto 2.5?

If you have a RH kernel (or any other -ac kernel) you will get 32-bit
UID support for quotas.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger  \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/               -- Dogbert