Jan Kara wrote: > > Quota file can grow only if you write quota for some user (group) > for the first time. I think that after adding ~23 quota structures > quotafile should grow (you can do this for example by creating files > owned by users who never appeared on the system). But note that quota file > never shrinks and space after empty structures is reused so getting quota file > grow will be harder and harder provided you don't want to add more > and more users... If you run quotacheck it will free any unused space > and so it's easier to grow quota file afterwards. Thanks. > > We need to decide how to proceed with this. Should ext[23] > > do something to avoid the lock_super() problem, or should they > > wait for the dquot_initialize() changes? > I'm currently (and will be aproximately till the end of July) at > the university in USA at some exchange program and so I don't have computer > on which I could test kernel patches... So till that time I won't be > able to do reliable patches. Because it seems it's not so > hard to put quota allocation out of lock_super() it would be (at least for now) > better solution to do so. OK. I had patches which did this, but tossed them out because it was all a little premature. I think Al has patches which do this for ext2, so I'll use them when they turn up. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]