Re: fs-independent quotas

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 05:23:32PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 05:10:24PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > With the old quotactl, the kernel has no way to tell if it really got a
> > string of a struct dqblk (or something else); it can just interpret the
> > pointer as a string and see if it works. If instead of a string it got
> > a dqblk whose first 2 entries happends to be 0x6f6f622f 0x78300074,
> > you'll have troubles (you're doing quotaon on /boot).
> 
> Yes, the old quotactl interface sucked.
> Moving the command ID into the argument structure fixes it, and allows easy
> versioning as well - just as a simple example for alternatives to proplib.

Yes, the old interface can be improved with an ad-hoc interface format.
I still believe proplib is better. For example, you can go from a
32bit to a 64bit uid_t/gid_t without versionning (in the data structure
it's still <integer></integer>).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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