From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not allow setting of quota limits to too high values
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:44:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080318164410.GR23104@duck.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803181740300.8851@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
On Tue 18-03-08 17:40:53, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Mar 17 2008 14:11, Jan Kara wrote:
>>>
>>> For 2.6.26, I assume? I am not able to determine the seriousness of this
>>> problem from the changelog nor from the patch itself.
>>
>> Not really serious. Nobody complained so far (i.e., for the time quota
>> exists) and the limits will just wrap when you try to set them over 4TB
>> now. So the patch can wait...
> So does quota_v2.c even handle quotas > 4 TB?
Usage yes, limits no. But some Sun guys are already working on a patch
for fully 64-bit quota. I already have a decent kernel patch from him but
I'd like to see also tools support to really run it before merging the
patch :).
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-19 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-12 17:22 Jan Kara
2008-03-13 20:03 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-17 13:11 ` Jan Kara
2008-03-18 16:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-18 16:44 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2008-03-18 21:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-19 9:54 ` Jan Kara
2008-03-19 11:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
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