From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269017AbTGJHlf (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 03:41:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268992AbTGJHle (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 03:41:34 -0400 Received: from phoenix.mvhi.com ([195.224.96.167]:25101 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269017AbTGJHjA (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 03:39:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:53:38 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Jeff Garzik , LKML , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: RFC: what's in a stable series? Message-ID: <20030710085338.C28672@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Marcelo Tosatti , Jeff Garzik , LKML , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds References: <3F0CBC08.1060201@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:54:52AM -0300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:54:52AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > The quota patches have been around for a long time, and Jan Kara has been > trying to include for sometime now (since 2.4.20/21). I tried to avoid it. > > Now I realized the possible drawbacks of it are minimal (if any) compared > to the overall advantage it brings to Linux 2.4. 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.