Re: quota and 2.0.37
Jan Kara (jack@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:50:45 +0200
> Hi all.
>
> I'm having weird problems with quota and kernel 2.0.37. I am unable to
> setup quotas for the /tmp filesystem. The partition is mounted with
> usrquota and grpquota enabled, if I run repquota -a after setting up the
> quotas, it hangs after showing root filesystem quotas. ps shows repquota
> in the D state, and update is also in D state. After reboot, the system
> hangs while unmounting filesystems.
>
> I've experienced similar problems with 2.0.26 as well.
>
> Is this a known problem? I haven't been able to find anything in the
> archives. I'll be happy to provide as much detail as I can.
Yes this is a known problem.. Quota in 2.0 kernels is broken. After applying
my fixes at ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/jack/quota-fix-2.0.35-2.diff.gz
this problem should disappear (the patch should apply cleanly against 2.0.37 too).
Honza.
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