Re: XFS / Quota Bug in 2.6.17.x and 2.6.18x

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> > 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
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