Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Disk quotas in 2.1.79 | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:53:32 -0700 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> |
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...do they work at all?
I need to start looking into using quotas as we slip linux systems ever deeper into our network infrastructure. So I set up a new partition on my 2.1.79 system and tried to enable quotas, following the steps in the mini HOWTO.
What happens is that quota-related processes (i.e. 'repquota') go into uninterruptible "D" waits; strace says it happens in 'quotactl'. It looks very much as if the internal locking on the quota structures is getting messed up. With 2.1.78 things would wedge immediately; in 2.1.79 it appears to work for a while before something hangs.
Before I get too deep into tracking this down, can anybody tell me whether (1) this is a known problem, being worked on, or (2) if there is something else I might have done wrong?
Thanks, jon
Jonathan Corbet National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division corbet@atd.ucar.edu http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/jmc.html
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