# Re: \[PATCH 1/4\] Adds general codes to enforces project quota limits

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- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2014/09/88277/t

## Re: \[PATCH 1/4\] Adds general codes to enforces project quota limits

- From: Christoph Hellwig \<hidden\>
- Date: 2014-09-24 17:13:06 
- Message: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2014/09/88277.md

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On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 07:10:20PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Yeah, I'm aware of that but I decided I won't bother Li Xi with that
> since it's independent issue and 8 bytes aren't that terrible.

For the inode of which we have so many instances it is.  Especially when
only one filesystem can make use of this new field.
 
> Personally
> I somewhat prefer what I did in
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg74927.html
> where we don't introduce additional method but rather a table with field
> offsets in superblock. If people agree with this, I can cook up a patch for
> quota relatively quickly.

There's an even better way.  We stopped calling the dquot_* functions
from generic code, so now the filesystem can simply pass in a pointer
to the dquot array.
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