[PATCH] xfs_quota: Better describe quota verbose output

Carlos Maiolino cmaiolino at redhat.com
Tue Jun 30 14:11:45 CDT 2015


> > the available quota. Such behavior might make users confused, so, I believe it's
> > better to have the reasons for such behavior better documented.
> > 
> 
> Seems reasonable...
> 
> > +option outputs verbose information, displaying quota values even when there is
> > +no used space. Such behavior was chosen to be compliant with the 'quota' command
> > +and for historical reasons. The
> 
> ... though this sounds a bit unclear to me. Specifically, it sounds like
> it could be saying that the behavior of -v has some historical
> justification, when in fact, it is the absense of output in the
> non-verbose case that we're trying to document (assuming I understand
> the commit log correctly).
> 
> As an example, something like the following sounds more clear to me:
> 
> "The -v option outputs verbose information and includes quota limits
> with no consumption. By default, xfs_quota does not display limits with
> no consumption to maintain compatibility with the 'quota' command."
> 
> ... but I suspect it could still be worded better.
> 

Thank you for the comment Brian, I liked your idea, but, I'm also not the best
person to say if this is enough or not, I'll wait for some other comments here,
so I can send a V2 with our final decision.

Cheers

-- 
Carlos



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