[PATCH 2/7] Fix test whether kernel supports quotas

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 02:49:02PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 19-05-10 14:42:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > For all 2.6 kernels presence of quota support in kernel can be detected by
> > > checking /proc/sys/fs/quota. This is actually more reliable than trying to
> > > mount a filesystem with quota options (for example because SCRATCH_DEV does
> > > not have to contain a filesystem type we are going to test).
> > 
> > It's not actually correct.  /proc/sys/fs/quota only gets registered by
> > fs/quota/dquot.c, which means it's not avaiable in a kernel that only
> > has XFS quotas.
>   Ah, I was convinced that _require_quota() should check whether VFS
> quotas are enabled but apparently it should work also for XFS. So would
> test like below be OK?
> 
> if [ $FSTYP = "xfs" ]; then
>     [ -f /proc/fs/xfs/xqmstat ] || _notrun "Installed kernel does not support XFS quota"
> else
>     [ -d /proc/sys/fs/quota ] || _notrun "Installed kernel does not support quota"
> fi

That would still fail for GFS2.