-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?
Heh, no - its more likely you just haven't needed to do a quotacheck
on a filesystem thats initially mounted readonly (like root often is).
Well I "sometimes" do that, i.e. intentionally turning off quota on the running system, to force a recheck on boot. The mount options essentially
are /bin/mount /dev/hda2 / -o ro,usrquota,grpquota and then /bin/mount / -o remount,rw
No breakage so far, which is why I wondered. Is it limited to a specific kernel version?
I'm guessing you had quota enabled from earlier barrier-unaware kernels
and quotacheck only needs to be run during that initial mount.
Jan Engelhardt