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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:55:27 -0800
From:      David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        winter@jurai.net, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UFS quota reference count overflow
Message-ID:  <20030221135527.GA58235@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030221.061511.127813063.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20030221032611.GA54489@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030221015809.W66355@sasami.jurai.net> <20030221.061511.127813063.imp@bsdimp.com>

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Thus spake M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>:
> In message: <20030221015809.W66355@sasami.jurai.net>
>             "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> writes:
> : On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, David Schultz wrote:
> : > Am I correct to assume that there probably aren't any modules that would
> : > have ABI compatability issues?
> : 
> : Won't systems with existing quotas be forced to recreate their quota
> : files?
> 
> Little endian filesystems would be fine.  Big endian file systems
> would need to regenerate things, no?

The patch changes struct dquot, which is not written to the quota
file, so that shouldn't be an issue.  (dquot just has a reference
count and a few memory pointers.)  You seem to be thinking of
struct dqblk, which stores the actual quotas.

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