HEADS UP: 64-bit quotas going in to head today

Fri May 7 09:21:02 UTC 2010

On 05/07/10 02:36, Kirk McKusick wrote:
> Dag-Erling SmÃ¸rgrav and I have been working on updating the
> FFS quota system to support both traditional 32-bit and new 64-bit
> quotas (for those of you who want to put 2+Tb quotas on your users).
>
> By default quotas are not compiled into the kernel. To include them
> in your kernel configuration you need to specify:
>
> options		QUOTA			# Enable FFS quotas

Just wondering - does the quota code have that much impact on the file 
system that it's still today left out of the GENERIC kernel?