Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:13:06PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:

Right now it is, but there's ben patches in the past to introduce
project quotas to ext4. That didn't go far because it was done in a
way that was semantically different to XFS (for no reason that I
could understand) and nobody wanted two different sets of semantics
for the "same" feature.  The most common use of project quotas is to
implement sub-tree quotas,

(Though it's also useful as a way to do safe subtree NFS exports).

--b.

which is probably of more interest to
btrfs folks as it is an exact match for per-subvolume quotas.

So, yes, I do see it as something generically useful - it's a
feature that a lot of people use XFS specifically for....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
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