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Subject: Re: RFC:  what's in a stable series?
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On Iau, 2003-07-10 at 08:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Also the quota patches don't change any ABI or API - userland can still
> use the old ABI in addition to the new one, 16bit ondisk quotas are
> still supported and filesystems couldn't care less which implementation
> it plugs into - the API is the same.

Because you hacked v1 support out of Jan Kara's stuff the quota bits are
pretty useless to most people because they have v1 format files.