Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:06:27 +0300 | From | Meelis Roos <> | Subject | Re: Quota lockups |
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JC> I posted some time ago the sure way to lock up the quota code: have an JC> empty 'quota.user' file. Then do something that causes somebody to JC> allocate space on the device. The file system gets locked once to make the JC> quota change, then again because the first block of the quota file needs to JC> be allocated, which requires another quota modification. *Lock*.
Are you sure it still exists? During about 2.1.103, the quota system has been redone and AFAIK this bug doesn't exist anymore. But I haven't tested it recently.
-- Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
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