Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:11:31 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: XFS / Quota Bug in 2.6.17.x and 2.6.18x |
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> The crash only occurs if you use quota and IDE without barrier support.
I don't quite get this. I do use quota, and have barriers turned off (either explicitly or because the drive does not support it), but yet no error message like you posted. Do I just have luck?
> The Problem is, that on a new mount of a root filesystem - the flag VFS_RDONLY > is set - and so no barrier check is done before checking quota. With this patch > barrier check is done always. The partition should not be mounted at that > moment. For mount -o remount, rw or something like this it uses another > function where VFS_RDONLY is checked.
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