On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 01:06:38PM -0500, Ben Kaduk wrote: > [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?
I promise to enable UFS quotas in GENERIC in one week unless anybody objects now.
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