From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/16] GFS: quotas
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:34:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051025133424.GD4244@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051024160927.GC3755@redhat.com>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:16:17PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > Code that deals with quotas.
> > Is there some documentation how the GFS quotas are supposed to work?
> > I've just briefly looked through the code and it seems they are quite
> > similar to the current VFS ones. What are the differences (especially
> > why don't you implement GFS quotas as just another format of VFS quotas)?
>
> Hi, yes there is. It's important for gfs to control when it updates the
> quota file. If every machine sharing the file system needed to read or
> write the quota file on every operation, it would be a terrible
> bottleneck. Below is a summary of the current implementation that Ken
> wrote and that I'll add to quota.c; let me know if this helps.
Thanks a lot for the description. It helped a lot. I think it's now
time to read the code in detail :).
Honza
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-25 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-10 17:10 David Teigland
2005-10-24 12:16 ` Jan Kara
2005-10-24 16:09 ` David Teigland
2005-10-25 13:34 ` Jan Kara [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20051025133424.GD4244@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz \
--to=jack@suse.cz \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=teigland@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®