[replying to the MFC that triggered the connection] On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Bruce Cran <bru...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Author: brucec > Date: Tue Feb 22 17:38:43 2011 > New Revision: 218953 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218953 > > Log: > MFC r218840: > > Remove the quotas option from the Startup Services menu. > GENERIC has no support for quotas so this option has no effect.
Do you know why GENERIC does not have quota support enabled? I note that the Debian/kFreeBSD folk have enabled quota support for the kernel they ship: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608995 In that report, emaste@ is quoted as saying: > If you mean "kFreeBSD should ship with a quota-enabled kernel" then I'd > say go for it. The reason we don't have it on in upstream FreeBSD is > largely historical; enabling quotas used to require additional locking > that caused performance and other issues. The additional locking is now > not required, and it's just that nobody has stepped in to turn them on. If you believe everything you read on the internet, "In order to achieve a modern operating system, the quota support should be active by default, not achieved only after compilation of a custom kernel." Is there more to "stepping in and turning them on" than just the one-line change? -Ben Kaduk _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
