>>>>> "buchan" == Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

buchan> Juan Quintela wrote:
>>>>>>> "buchan" == Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>>> 
buchan> [bgmilne:~]# mount|grep quota
buchan> /dev/hda11 on /var/spool/CDWserver type xfs (rw,grpquota,usrquota)
buchan> [bgmilne:~]# edquota bgmilne
buchan> No filesystems with quota detected.
buchan> [bgmilne:~]# uname -a
buchan> Linux bgmilne.cae.co.za 2.4.17-19mdk #1 Tue Feb 19 19:30:26 CET 2002
buchan> i686 unknown
buchan> [bgmilne:~]#
>> Fixed in 2.4.18-3mdk.
>> 

buchan> Thanks.

>> Sorry for the delay, it was a difficult problem and took time :(
>> Later, Juan "making last bit of supermount working"
>> 


buchan> Just a query from the changelog in -4mdk:
buchan> %changelog
buchan> * Tue Mar  5 2002 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1-1mdk
buchan> - audigy driver for emu10k1 new cards.
buchan> - quotas fixed, at last (for the curious, jfs & reiserfs don't have
buchan> quota support, don't try).
buchan> - remove the quota patch, as it is integrated in the xfs one.
buchan> - xfs for 2.4.18.
buchan> - enable wireless support in BOOT kernels.
buchan> - 2.4.18-4mdk.


buchan> Disclaimer: IANAKH (I am not a kernel hacker). ReiserFS claims to have
buchan> working quotas, patches here:
buchan> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mason/patches/reiserfs/quota-2.4/2.4.18/

buchan> However, if ReiserFS quotas are not going to work, the options need to
buchan> be removed from diskdrake, which will happily put the options in fstab
buchan> for you, ensuring that you can't mount the partition ...

There are patches for quotas for reiserfs, but they are far from
trivial, they change all the transaction model from not allowing
nested transactions, to allowing them.  I think that this is a big
change and will repercute in the stability of reiserfs :(

Later, Juan.


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