Re: Quota patches

Linus Torvalds
2002-05-23T17:05:16Z

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Doesn't let me select both ?
> Yes. Only one of compatible interfaces is allowed. The reason is
> mainly due to QUOTAON. Both V1 and V2 interfaces used Q_QUOTAON
> to turn quotas on (looking back I admit it was stupid but it happened).
> So now we would have to recognize which quota file was actually given
> to us and turn on proper quota format - and I dislike such magic in
> kernel.. especially when it's not needed. When user has really old
> quota tools (<=2.00) he will turn on V1 interface. If he has newer tools
> (<3.05) he has to decide depending on format he wants to use...

This makes me pretty certain we just do not want to have the backwards-
compatibility layer in 2.5.x

Are there _any_ reasons to use the old stuff, if the fix is just to
upgrade to a newer quota tool?

Linus