Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jun 2006 07:11:00 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: XFS related hang (was Re: How to send a break? - dump from frozen 64bit linux) |
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>> Too bad XFS does not reinit quota on these commands: >> >> qutoaoff /mp >> quotaon /mp > >Hmm, remount would be saner if we wanted to take that approach... > quotacheck would be sanest :) But the struct super_block->remount is probably the best idea in kernel space.
>> Yes, it would lock the filesystem for a moment, but that's better than >> trying to unmount it under someone having inodes open! > >But its not just a moment, a quotacheck needs to scan every inode >in the filesystem (on disk) to correctly account for all space/inode >usage.
Yeah right, XFS was designed for large systems rather than for just my 262188 files. (The latter of which completes in an "adequate" time of a few secs.)
>Its not something to be encouraging people to do frequently, > Certainly not, but XFS has the advange of bulkstat for quota scanning. `quotacheck` on vfsv0 quota databases always takes longer IMO.
>and it would also be very difficult to correctly implement (while the >filesystem is actively being modified I mean). > Noted.
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