Re: [patch] User-space nfsd and quotas

Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
Sat, 6 Mar 1999 14:51:48 +0200

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JK> it seems that the user-space NFS-daemon does not honour
JK> disk quotas, because quotas are checked against current->euid
JK> instead of current->fsuid in include/linux/quotaops.h. The quota
JK> system works for knfsd, because of the following (IMHO dirty)
JK> hack in fs/nfsd/vfs.c:

Is it related to the issue that with unfsd ordinary users can use the
disk space reserved for root (because unfsd runs as root?).
Probably not though.

-- Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)

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