On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 6:55 PM Luis Henriques <lhenriq...@suse.com> wrote:
>
> "Yan, Zheng" <uker...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 5:06 PM Gregory Farnum <gfar...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 2:32 PM Yan, Zheng <uker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > After reading the code carefully. I feel a little uncomfortable with
> >> > the "lookup_ino" in get_quota_realm.  how about populating directories
> >> > above the 'mount subdir' during mounting (similar to cifs_get_root ).
>
> Wouldn't it be a problem if the directory layout (or, in this case, the
> snaprealm layout) change during the mount lifetime?  In that case we
> would need to do this lookup anyway.
>

right

> >>
> >> Isn't that going to be a problem for any clients which have
> >>restricted filesystem access permissions? They may not be able to see
> >>all the directories above their mount point.  -Greg
> >
> > using lookup_ino to get inode above the "mount subdir" has the same problem
> >
>
> In this case I believe we get an -EPERM from the MDS.  And then the
> client simply falls back to the 'default' behaviour, which is to allow
> the user to create/write to files as if there were no quotas set.
>

fair enough

> Cheers,
> --
> Luis

Reply via email to