[PATCH v2 3/3] xfs_quota: additional changes to allow use on ext4

[Bill O'Donnell]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 03:34:55PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 11:46:14PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > On 8/21/16 10:34 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > > On 8/21/16 9:06 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:16:38AM -0500, Bill O'Donnell wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > >> static int
> > >> init_check_command(
> > >> 	const cmdinfo_t *ct)
> > >> {
> > >> 	if (!fspath)
> > >> 		return 1;
> > >>
> > >> 	/* Always run commands that we are told to skip here */
> > >> 	if (ct->flags & CMD_SKIP_CHECK)
> > >> 		return 1;
> > >>
> > >> 	/* if it's an XFS filesystem, always run the command */
> > >> 	if (!(fs_path->fs_flags & FS_FOREIGN))
> > >> 		return 1;
> > > 
> > > Sorry for the late review; thanks for getting on it, Dave - but,
> > > isn't "foreign ok" exactly == "skip check?"
> > > 
> > > The only check that gets skipped is the foreign check, so just
> > > setting FOREIGN_OK seems to accomplish the same thing without
> > > more flag complexity, no?
> > 
> > Oh, the subliminal brain reminded me that we want to be able to
> > issue help or quit whether or not we had the "-f" flag, regardless
> > of the filesystem, and that "foreign" isn't ok unless the -f flag
> > is set, so we do need a class of "always works" commands.
> 
> Right, but that was something that was done in patch 1/3. I pointed
> out that no mention of it was made in the cmmit message there....
> 
> > I guess that was the point of the patch, but I suppose some clarity
> > in comments or commitlog would help slow people like me.  ;)
> 
> Right. better explanations needed all round :P

Yes, I'll clean it up in v3.
Thanks-
Bill


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david at fromorbit.com
> 
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