svn commit: r218953 - stable/8/usr.sbin/sysinstall
Ben Kaduk
minimarmot at gmail.com
Tue Feb 22 18:33:26 UTC 2011
[replying to the MFC that triggered the connection]
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Bruce Cran <brucec at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: brucec
> Date: Tue Feb 22 17:38:43 2011
> New Revision: 218953
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218953
>
> Log:
> MFC r218840:
>
> Remove the quotas option from the Startup Services menu.
> GENERIC has no support for quotas so this option has no effect.
Do you know why GENERIC does not have quota support enabled? I note
that the Debian/kFreeBSD folk have enabled quota support for the
kernel they ship:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608995
In that report, emaste@ is quoted as saying:
> If you mean "kFreeBSD should ship with a quota-enabled kernel" then I'd
> say go for it. The reason we don't have it on in upstream FreeBSD is
> largely historical; enabling quotas used to require additional locking
> that caused performance and other issues. The additional locking is now
> not required, and it's just that nobody has stepped in to turn them on.
If you believe everything you read on the internet, "In order to
achieve a modern operating system, the quota support should be active
by default, not achieved only after compilation of a custom kernel."
Is there more to "stepping in and turning them on" than just the
one-line change?
-Ben Kaduk
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