Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4T9GCnC024369 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 02:16:12 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4T9GCmE024368 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 2002 02:16:12 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from phoenix.infradead.org (imladris.infradead.org [194.205.184.45]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g4T9G6nC024341 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 02:16:06 -0700 Received: from hch by phoenix.infradead.org with local (Exim 3.35 #5) id 17CzZm-0000bZ-00; Wed, 29 May 2002 10:17:02 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 10:17:02 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeremy Allison Cc: Nathan Scott , "Ralf G. R. Bergs" , Jan Kara , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: Problems compiling Samba 2.2.4 with quota under Debian stable Message-ID: <20020529101702.A2094@infradead.org> References: <20020529085106.A207538@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <20020528160447.Q13933@va.samba.org> <20020529000443.A26151@infradead.org> <20020528162305.R13933@va.samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020528162305.R13933@va.samba.org>; from jra@samba.org on Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:23:05PM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:23:05PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > Ok I see. What alternative do you propose for Samba ? Should > we just disable quota support on Linux and tell people to use > an OS with real quota support ? This would not be good for many > of our users. That's one option - you'll just get a bunch of screaming users.. The other option would be to just copy the quota headers from the Linux quota package instead of relying on changing kernels. > > I'm so sick of these apps including kernel headers, we should just > > disallow it in 2.5 completly. > > Sounds good to me. So do you recommend Samba users requiring quota > support migrate to FreeBSD, OS/X, Solaris, IRIX or HPUX (all of > which provide quota support without having to include kernel header > files :-) :-) ? At least on FreeBSD you actually have to include a kernel header. But as FreeBSD only supports UFS quotas adn doesn't try to support multiple kernel interfazce versions with the same userspace binaries it's a rather different issue. Fixing Samba is of course another option, but maybe a large-scale migration is in fact easier.. 8)