On Wed, 23 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:15:48PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > Stop here. You have a hole in quota file. You are not supposed to.
>
> I don't see how you can avoid it. What about something like a "chown"
> to a previously-unused uid? We have 32-bit uids now, remember, so
> unless you preallocate a very large quota file we're going to have to
> deal with allocating the entry *somewhere*.
<shrug> Code in the current tree depends on that.
Anyway, correct way to deal with that is pretty simple - take quota
allocation/freeing out of lock_super(). BTDT. See patchset on
ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/ext2.tar.gz - ialloc and balloc parts.
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