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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2015-04-14 10:08:15 +0200
committerJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2015-05-18 11:23:07 +0200
commit18e25fa40331364759bc2a48cffc5d7772b89c78 (patch)
treeb0c07f473594985c9b2c3fcfddf710e630cdf87a /Documentation/filesystems
parent231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 (diff)
quota: Update documentation
Mention that quota netlink messages are sent only in initial network namespace. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt
index 5e8de25bf0f1..29fc01552646 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ The interface uses generic netlink framework (see
http://lwn.net/Articles/208755/ and http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/ for more
details about this layer). The name of the quota generic netlink interface
is "VFS_DQUOT". Definitions of constants below are in <linux/quota.h>.
- Currently, the interface supports only one message type QUOTA_NL_C_WARNING.
+Since the quota netlink protocol is not namespace aware, quota netlink messages
+are sent only in initial network namespace.
+
+Currently, the interface supports only one message type QUOTA_NL_C_WARNING.
This command is used to send a notification about any of the above mentioned
events. Each message has six attributes. These are (type of the argument is
in parentheses):