[AFS3-std] Quota for max. number of files per volumes

[Alf Wachsmann]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> Simon Wilkinson wrote:
>> Rather than overloading existing fields (especially in the case of
>> returning two values bitpacked into MinQuota), I think it's more
>> valuable to consider the RPC changes necessary to support this as a
>> first class feature.

This is as expected ;-)


>> I will leave others to speak to the desirability of using the MinQuota
>> portion of the volume header - I've got no idea how widespread other
>> uses for this field may be.
>
> While I am not opposed to the feature, I am opposed to overloading
> existing fields.

I am curious whether the existing MinQuota field is used at all.
Why not reuse a field that is not used?

Re-using this field has the added advantage that the new on-disk format
is compatible with the old one. I.e. you can mix new and old servers.
The same applies to volume dumps.

-- Alf.

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