Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Dec 1996 22:08:21 -0500 (EST) | From | "Adam D. Bradley" <> | Subject | Re: QUOTA [with patch this time] |
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> There seems to be a bug in kernel quotas. I've verified that it is present > in the first 1.3.x kernels to support quotas. > [snip] > > It happens on roughly every 40th UID, but not exactly. I've > verified this on four different machines with various kernels > from 1.3.x to 2.1.15.
Hmm...dquot.c uses a hash function for some data lookup, table is of size NR_DQHASH which is defined as 43 (see linux/include/linux/quota.h). Coincidence? I wish the source had better documented parameters...but the stuff in linux/fs/dquot.c is where we should start looking...
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