> >> There's one other caveat though, only root can use the qgroup ioctls, > >> which means that only root can check quotas. > > > > Only root can check quotas?! That is really strange. How users are > > supposed to know they are about to be out of space?... Is this by design > > so and will remain like that or it's just because this feature was not > > finished yet? > > > I have no idea if it's intended to be that way, but quite a few things > in BTRFS are root-only that debatably should not be. I think the quota > ioctls fall under the same category as the tree search ioctl, they > access data that's technically privileged and can let you see things > beyond the mount point they're run on.
Could somebody among developers please elaborate on this issue - is checking quota going always to be done by root? If so - btrfs might be a no-go for our use case... Thank you! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
