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Date:      Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:07:12 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk>
Cc:        freebsd hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: About QUOTA support in stock kernel (resent)
Message-ID:  <20121225150712.GA82219@kib.kiev.ua>
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On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 09:34:30PM +0800, Patrick Dung wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I would like to know why quota is not enabled in the stock kernel..
>=20
> I remembered that it is not enabled since freebsd 3.5 or freebsd 4 genera=
tion.
> Now in freebsd 9.0, it still neeed a kernel rebuild.
>=20
> I have heard it has performance issue (GIANT lock) about quota.

Enabling quota by default would cause small overhead, like one mutex acquir=
e,
for each inode and block alloc/dealloc, even for mount without quotas enabl=
ed.

Might be, it is reasonable to just enable it now. Unless somebody provide
valid objections and I do not forget, I will do it in a week for HEAD.

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