Re: Need Quota Support for Reiserfs Partition

From: Jacky Malcles
Date: Tue Dec 16 2003 - 10:36:21 EST


Jan,

do you know if quotas are working with ext3 FS ?
I'm using kernel 2.6.0test9 and quota-3.09-1
and I can't turn them on,
quotaon command returns:
quotaon: using /users/aquota.user on /dev/sdc2 [/users]: No such process
quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel.
...
many thanks,

Jan Kara wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I'm using Slackware Linux with kernel version 2.6.0-test11. All of my
> > partitions are Rieserfs. I now have a need to use quotas on a partition, but
> > according to the help screen using "make menuconfig" quotas are only
> > available under the ext2 file systems. Is there a patch to allow quotas
> > under rieserfs? One of my searches said that Reiserfs and quotas were
> > supported under 2.6.0, but when I try and mount the partition with this line
> > in /etc/fstab:
> >
> > /dev/hde2 /downloads reiserfs defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 2
> >
> > I get this error:
> >
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde2,
> > or too many mounted file systems
> >
> >
> > If I take the usrquota,grpquota off, the mount works fine.
> AFAIK ReiserFS doesn't support quotas in 2.6 kernel. Chris Mason
> <mason@xxxxxxxx> maintains needed patches for 2.4 and is working on
> porting them to 2.6 but they are not yet ported.
>
> Honza
>
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> Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> SuSE CR Labs
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