On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 06:43:47AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > > It seems to me that quotas are fundamentally a special-purpose > > key/value store; that is, you look up quota information for a > > particular thing (the key) and get back the quota settings and current > > usage information (the value). > > If you are going to add a generic key/value store mechanism for all > filesystems, you can consider fs-independent extended attrbiutes as > well.
I am not adding a generic key/value store mechanism. I am representing the quota data as a specific key/value store. A generic key/value store mechanism for all filesystems would be a very large, messy, and semantically nebulous project... -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
