On Feb 11 2008 13:39, Jan Kara wrote: >> >> But... I'm thinking about this scenario: >> >> # mount /data >> # quotaon /data >> (some maintenance stuff to be planned) >> # mount -o remount,ro /data >> (do backup etc) >> # mount -r remount,rw /data >> >> at this point, it's expected that quota on /data is enabled. >> After this patch, it's not anymore... > > Yes, it previously accidentally worked this way (for an year or so, >before that we refused to remount read-only). Hmm, but maybe we could >somehow tweak quotas to be turned on when remounting read-write again. >We have all the information we need at the time of remounting read-only >so we could store it and use it later when remounting read-write. I'll have >a look into that.
Maybe it is possible to leave quota on all times, so that the reporting quota ioctls continue to work even in ro mode? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/