On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:13:06PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
Right now it is, but there's ben patches in the past to introduce project quotas to ext4. That didn't go far because it was done in a way that was semantically different to XFS (for no reason that I could understand) and nobody wanted two different sets of semantics for the "same" feature. The most common use of project quotas is to implement sub-tree quotas,
(Though it's also useful as a way to do safe subtree NFS exports).
--b.
which is probably of more interest to btrfs folks as it is an exact match for per-subvolume quotas.
So, yes, I do see it as something generically useful - it's a feature that a lot of people use XFS specifically for....
Cheers,
Dave.
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