[linux-cifs-client] Re: CONFIG_CIFS_QUOTA?

[Steven French]

> just noticed that the CIFS code tests the config variable
> CONFIG_CIFS_QUOTA, for which there is no config-time setting.  is this
> still a valid macro?  just curious.

Last I checked, the supporting functions for the better form/version of 
Linux 
quota ops could not get invoked for network filesystems since there was 
VFS
code (in fs/quota.c IIRC) that required a physical device rather than path 
- so 
I put off finishing this until the VFS was changed (to allow the quota API 
to 
make it to non-local fs too, not just local fs).

I have not checked recently to see if the quota code could now be 
finished,
but it should not be too hard to remove the ifdefs and trace down.  The
worker functions for cifs quota operations over the wire should not be too
bad (except for the uid translation part).


Steve French
Senior Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin
phone: 512-838-2294
email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com