On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:54:41AM +1100, Matthew Geier
wrote:> Frank Joerdens wrote:
> >
> > Greetings. I read in a samba list that the quota support is
'broken' in
> > so-called 'linus' kernels > 2.4.3 and that one is supposed
to use a
> > redhat or 'cox' kernel (what the hell is that supposed to mean
. . . are
> > we having different Linux kernle branches now??)
>
> In effect yes.
>
> The linus kernel and the Alan Cox kernel. Alan tests stuff and then
> linus puts it in his kernel. More or less. Only the AC kernels have a
> different VM and differen quota controls.
> RedHat base their kernels off Alan Cox's tree.
>
> > if quota is to work.
> > Does anyone know anything about this? All I know is that quota support
> > does not work anymore since I moved to 2.4, not with samba or netatalk
> > (I need both, really).
>
> Patch it your self ?. I run XFS on my server, and it uses yet another
> quota system as the 'standard' ones don't handle 64bit file
systems. One
> of the XFS team patched samba. Samba is easy to fix, if you look at the
> quota code, its nicely split into different systems. The linux one has
> seperate functions that abstract the quota calls. It would be easy to
> fix.
Hmm. Do you happen to know if that applies to Reiser as well (i.e. does
the Cox kernel quota system work with Samba/Reiser without a patch or do
I need to also find a patch for Samba or use XFS instead of Reiser and
then use the XFS/Samba patch??)? If I understand you correctly, then I
would need to not only find a 2.4 kernel that has quota support (or
patch it myself), but find a filesystem/server combination that works
with the quota system that the kernel supports, which apparently becomes
rather tricky with modern filesystems and the current kernel generation
. . . ugh.
Regards, Frank
