Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:53:38 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: RFC: what's in a stable series? |
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:54:52AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > The quota patches have been around for a long time, and Jan Kara has been > trying to include for sometime now (since 2.4.20/21). I tried to avoid it. > > Now I realized the possible drawbacks of it are minimal (if any) compared > to the overall advantage it brings to Linux 2.4.
Also the quota patches don't change any ABI or API - userland can still use the old ABI in addition to the new one, 16bit ondisk quotas are still supported and filesystems couldn't care less which implementation it plugs into - the API is the same.
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