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SubjectRe: chown problem on filesystems with quotas
 Hello.

> So, I have a big problem. Versions affected are AT LEAST 2.2.12 and
> 2.2.13ac1.
> Problem: on filesystems with quotas chown(2) sometimes (or always ?) works
> BAD.
>
> Ok, I had no time to explore the whole thing but here is my problem:
> My server crashed every night (very high load, no chance to login or
> reboot). I noticed that
> cron job that does updatedb was the reason.
> chown root.root /var/lib/locatedb hanged and all processes became S and
> chown became D. Seems that kernel was locked.
> ltrace shows that /bin/chown hangs on chown(2).
> Quotas on /var were turned on. When I turned quotas on /var off, chown
> worked Ok.
>
> So it seems to be a bug...
Ooops... I'll look at it. Thanks for info. BTW: I think all newer 2.2 should
be affected.

Honza.


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