Re: Quota on root FS & old quota tools

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 10:01:29PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> Hi all.  I moved a system to xfs recently, and wanted quota support on the
> root FS.  I passed rootflags=quota to the kernel to get it to work as per
> the list archives, but I noticed that there was a recommendation to
> upgrade to quota 3.08 (or later) as well.  I'm using Debian 3.0
> (Woody) which is using quota 3.04.  Despite this, the quotas seem to be
> functioning perfectly.
> 
> So my question is: Should I be worried that a FS problem is lurking around
> the corner because I'm using quota 3.04 instead of 3.08 or later?

No, there is no lurking problem for you.  The change was to no
longer special case the root filesystem when enabling quota in
the tools.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan