From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263963AbTICQPq (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:15:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263966AbTICQPp (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:15:45 -0400 Received: from MAIL.13thfloor.at ([212.16.62.51]:61582 "EHLO mail.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263963AbTICQOh (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:14:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:14:35 +0200 From: Herbert Poetzl To: bill davidsen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Quota Hash Abstraction 2.6.0-test2 Message-ID: <20030903161435.GC24897@DUK2.13thfloor.at> Mail-Followup-To: bill davidsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030731184341.GA21078@www.13thfloor.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:56:58PM +0000, bill davidsen wrote: > In article <20030731184341.GA21078@www.13thfloor.at>, > Herbert =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=F6tzl?= wrote: > > Is any of this, particularly the work mentioned in the last paragraph > getting into the mail kernel? the quota fix was included in the next (test) release so default quota will work again ... the Quota Hash Abstraction is neither a (big) performance gain nor a feature bonus for the end user ... it is more an enhancement to the code itself, allowing to have more than one quota hash for arbitrary purposes ... I doubt, that this code will ever make it into mainline without another 'good' reason to use it, but maybe the --bind mount quota stuff would be such a reason, if the interest for such things will eventually grow ... HTH, Herbert > | Last time I posted the Quota Hash Abstraction for 2.4 > | somebody suggested doing it for 2.6, because it "might > | be interesting", so I thought, give it a try, and here > | it is ... > | > | please, if somebody has any quota tests, which he/she > | is willing to do on this code, or just want to do some > | testing with this code, do it and send me the results ... > | > | this patch requires the quota fix done by Jan Kara, > | otherwise quota would not work at all ... > -- > bill davidsen > CTO, TMR Associates, Inc > Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.