Re: Solution(?) to kern/28804: quotacheck crashes on FFSv2

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:53:53PM -0500, Greg A. Woods
wrote:
> The only big disadvantage of quotas is that it takes
too long to run
> quotacheck after a crash.  I wish it could be run in
the background on a
> live filesystem where quotas are already turned on, but
unless I'm
> mistaken that won't work even on FFSv2 (never mind the
risk that the
> quota file might be dangerously corrupted after a crash
too).

This would be a job for fsck. fsck already has all the
informations to
update the quota file when it's done, and quotas should be
inclued in
the journalling system when we get one. In short, I think
the
quota system should be more integrated to the filesystem
code, especially
for storage of quota values. It should probably become a
metadata of the
filesystem, rather than a file in the VFS space.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyerantioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la
difference
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