Re: [PATCH 10/16] GFS: quotas

From: Jan Kara
Date: Tue Oct 25 2005 - 08:34:30 EST


> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:16:17PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > Code that deals with quotas.
> > Is there some documentation how the GFS quotas are supposed to work?
> > I've just briefly looked through the code and it seems they are quite
> > similar to the current VFS ones. What are the differences (especially
> > why don't you implement GFS quotas as just another format of VFS quotas)?
>
> Hi, yes there is. It's important for gfs to control when it updates the
> quota file. If every machine sharing the file system needed to read or
> write the quota file on every operation, it would be a terrible
> bottleneck. Below is a summary of the current implementation that Ken
> wrote and that I'll add to quota.c; let me know if this helps.
Thanks a lot for the description. It helped a lot. I think it's now
time to read the code in detail :).

Honza

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