On 21 Nov 2001, Robert Love wrote:
> > I'd like to note that there is nothing abount quota tools in
> > Documentation/Changes. I tried to use one of Alan Cox kernels some weeks
> > ago, and was very surprised, when quota utilities 2.00 stopped working.
> > And I didn't find any information about correct quota tools in all the
> > source tree! At last I searched for the latest quota-tools in the Internet
> > (ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/jack/quota/utils/)
> > and installed it. Now it works. As I can understand, the current 2.4.*
> > will also need new utilities.
>
> I believe Alan's tree had 32-bit quota support, which requires a
> different version of quota-tools. If you return to Linus's tree, your
> original version will work.
>
> For what its worth, Linus has finally merged much of Alan's tree into
> his own, and is pretty much done as of 2.4.15-pre. 32-bit quotas were
> _not_ merged.
Thank you for this information. According to documentation, new
quota-tools know about both old and new quota formats, so I don't need to
downgrade now. My personal part of the problem is solved. But I can't
didn't find any information about minimum quota-tools version in
neither Linus's, nor Alan's kernel. Although versions of other utilities
are listed in Changes.
-- Dmitri Popov, mailto:popov@krista.ru- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Nov 23 2001 - 21:00:29 EST