linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: add project quota mount options

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jul 2016 12:36:56 +0900
From:	Wang Shilong <wangshilong1991@...il.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Shuichi Ihara <sihara@....com>, Li Xi <lixi@....com>,
	Wang Shilong <wshilong@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: add project quota mount options

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 11:06:10AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> > add prjquota, prjjquota, offprjjquota mount options
>> > for project quota.
>> >
>> > These kind of mount options are used for old
>> > quota design, and we can use quotas like these
>> > way:
>> >
>> >  # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda
>> >  # mount /dev/sda -o prjquota /mnt/test
>> >  # quotacheck -p /mnt/test
>> >  # quotaon /mnt/test
>> >
>> > This new mount options are also useful to unify
>> > some generic tests for xfs and ext4.
>

<...SNIP...>


>
> Yes, for the sake of those poor, unfortunate souls who have to support
> RHEL 6 (really, you couldn't pay me enough :-), it probably makes
> sense to support the legacy style quota system using either the
> usrquota/grpquota mount options, and so it makes sense for xfstests to
> user the old-style aquota.user files that can be messed with by
> confused userspace utilities, and which are dog-slow to check becuase
> a separate quotacheck run is required.
>
> But RHEL 6 doesn't have project quota, and so I don't see any reason
> to try to support the legacy quota setup for project quota.  Yes, we
> still want to test the quotatools VFS interfaces, and that means using
> quotatools binaries --- but it doesn't follow from that choice that we
> have to support the ancient ways of storing the quota files as
> user-visible files, or using the ancient mount options which are just
> horrible hacks to keep the old enterprise linux initscripts from
> breaking.
>
> Does this make sense?


I do agree with your point here, but the problem is as you can see come
from xfstests arguments from Dave Chinner.

I don't think currently users will try to old interface with project quota.
But as your request, i think you need some tests for project quota...

I think it make sense to add a test for lsattr/chattr interface for ext4,
whatever it can be moved to ext4 or generic.


Thanks,
Shilong



>
>                                                         - Ted
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