Re: Problem setting up quotas ...

[James Pearson <james-p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks - that seems to have fixed it - although I've now hit a problem
with  repquota endlessly looping - but I notice that this has already
been reported.

James Pearson

Nathan Scott wrote:
> 
> hi James,
> 
> On May 3,  3:36pm, James Pearson wrote:
> > Subject: Problem setting up quotas ...
> > ...
> > # edquota james
> > No filesystems with quota detected.
> >
> 
> OK, this is a bug in the way the Redhat 7.1 kernel rpms
> were integrated with the XFS code.  Here is a patch which
> will fix it - Eric has tested this for me & it works.
> 
> It _only_ affects the kernel rpms with Redhat 7.1 changes
> - the base 2.4.2 patches, cvs trees, etc. are not affected
> and _do not_ need the patch..
> 
> --- fs/dquot.c.orig     Fri May  4 10:17:40 2001
> +++ fs/dquot.c  Fri May  4 11:02:13 2001
> @@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@
>         type = cmd & SUBCMDMASK;
> 
> 
> -       if ((uint) type >= MAXQUOTAS || cmds > 0x0F00 || cmds < 0x100 || cmds 
> == 0x0300 ||
> +       if ((uint) type >= MAXQUOTAS || cmds < 0x100 || cmds == 0x0300 ||
>             cmds == 0x0400 || cmds == 0x0500)
>                 goto out;
> 
> @@ -2049,9 +2049,6 @@
>                 unlock_kernel();
>                 return sb->s_op->quotactl(sb, cmds, type, id, addr);
>         }
> -
> -       if (id & ~0xFFFF)
> -               goto out;
> 
>         ret = -EINVAL;
>         switch (cmds) {
> 
> > ...
> > Incidentally, the examples in /usr/share/doc/xfsprogs/README.quota and
> > the quotaon man page don't agree with the actual commands e.g.
> >
> > in README.quota the syntax to the setquota example is incorrect.
> >
> > in quotaon(8), the examples talk about a -s option to repquota and a -o
> > option to quotaoff which don't seem to exist ...
> >
> 
> That's been updated in the development tree now -- thanks.
> 
> cheers.
> 
> --
> Nathan