Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:54:40 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <bob89@bobj.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Michael R. Wayne" <wayne@staff.msen.com> Subject: Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems? Message-ID: <200503042254.40766.bob89@bobj.org> In-Reply-To: <200503042233.38378.bob89@bobj.org> References: <200503032153.j23LrJTA026477@manor.msen.com> <4228E798.7040701@eng.ufl.edu> <200503042233.38378.bob89@bobj.org>
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On Friday 04 March 2005 10:33 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2005 05:56 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: > > Michael R. Wayne wrote: > > >On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:53:19 -0500, Michael R. Wayne > > > <wayne@staff.msen.com> > > wrote: > > >>Is it possible to use quotas on file-backed md filesystems > > >>on 5.3? I was guessing that a line in fstab like: > > > > > >OK, I see the error in my ways. My goal is to use file-based > > >filesystems that are preserved acoss boots. vnconfig says to > > >use mdconfig, the handbook suggests that the method I used is > > >correct. But everything is cleared on reboot, which is not > > >what I was looking for. > > > > It appears that it always formats a new filesystem because that's what > > mount_mfs did, and mdmfs is a replacement for mount_mfs. I agree > > with you that that should not be the default behavior for a file-backed > > (vnode) disk, so I wrote a little patch to fix that: > > [patch omitted] > So after all that, NOW I notice that there is already a published patch for this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/74105 Oh, well. It was an amusing exercise. - Bob
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