Change of historical behavior

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Sun Apr 29 23:39:01 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 13:29 -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> ...... Original Message .......
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:25:29 -0500 Tom "spot" Callaway 
> <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> >Not to ask stupid questions, but should that have ever worked? I'd think
> >an outright rejection would be far useful than creating empty files
> >innocently.
> >
> 
> It should work because inodes and data blocks are two distinct resources 
> within a filesystem that UNIX/Linux quotas have the flexibility in 
> controlling separately. 
> 
> Behaviors (especially those with decades long precedence) shouldn't change 
> without very good reason, and they certaintly shouldn't change 
> non-deliberately.
> 
> I wonder if POSIX has anything to say about quota behavior.
> 
> Since I posted the message, I checked a SLES10 box using ext3 with acls and 
> user_xattr. It's behaves as expected in the traditional manner. Being over 
> your data block quota doesn't impact the ability to create zero byte files.

This may be a legit bug then. Bugzilla it. :)

~spot




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