Re: Need Quota Support for Reiserfs Partition

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

  Hi,

> I'm using Slackware Linux with kernel version 2.6.0-test11. All of my
> partitions are Rieserfs. I now have a need to use quotas on a partition, but
> according to the help screen using "make menuconfig" quotas are only
> available under the ext2 file systems. Is there a patch to allow quotas
> under rieserfs? One of my searches said that Reiserfs and quotas were
> supported under 2.6.0, but when I try and mount the partition with this line
> in /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/hde2 /downloads reiserfs defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 2
> 
> I get this error:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde2,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> 
> If I take the usrquota,grpquota off, the mount works fine.
  AFAIK ReiserFS doesn't support quotas in 2.6 kernel. Chris Mason
<mason@suse.com> maintains needed patches for 2.4 and is working on
porting them to 2.6 but they are not yet ported.

									Honza

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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SuSE CR Labs