On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:21:26PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > (also, edquota and repquota seem fs-independent to me...) > > no, they're not: they can directly the quota1 file specified in the > fstab if quotactl fails or the filesystem is not mounted.
That's a bug, or more accurately legacy behavior that doesn't need to be supported. Once upon a time (IIRC) df used to fall back to opening the block device and examining ffs structures directly; that was removed because it violated desirable abstractions. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org