From: Nathan Scott Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:08:53 +0000 (+0000) Subject: update installation requirements text - CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA is no longer X-Git-Tag: v2.0.0~34 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f60192521efb561af0fea6021ee70e82366cf995;p=thirdparty%2Fxfsprogs-dev.git update installation requirements text - CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA is no longer dependent on CONFIG_QUOTA. --- diff --git a/doc/README.quota b/doc/README.quota index 84f0dcd21..eb2dab49d 100644 --- a/doc/README.quota +++ b/doc/README.quota @@ -202,10 +202,10 @@ GETTING STARTED To use quota under XFS you will need the following: o An XFS aware kernel; - o Quota must be enabled at the time the kernel is built - (CONFIG_QUOTA, at the start of the Filesystems menu); o XFS quota must be enabled at the time XFS is built - (CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA, below XFS in the Filesystems menu); + (CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA, below XFS in the Filesystems menu) - + in older kernel versions this also required CONFIG_QUOTA + to be set, but this is no longer true; o Userspace quota tools which are aware of XFS quota. User tools which support XFS can be downloaded from the Linux @@ -295,5 +295,12 @@ On IRIX, XFS supports project quota. This is not (ever) likely to be supported on Linux/XFS, as the concept of a project is specific to IRIX. A filesystem that has used user quota on IRIX, however, can be migrated to Linux, and vice-versa, as the ondisk format is shared between both -versions of XFS (and Linux/XFS is "endian clean"). +versions of XFS (and Linux/XFS is "endian clean"). Group quota support +is planned for a future release of IRIX, and the same level of ondisk +compatibility will be available as for user quota, once this work has +been completed. + +Have fun, + + -- nathans@sgi.com