On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:31:05AM -0900, Liam Forbes wrote:
> I searched the archives, but didn't find anything about incorrect
> quota information for an NFS mounted XFS filesystem. I hope somebody
> might have an idea.
>
> We have a RHEL 5.7 server mounting a 15T XFS filesystem and exporting
> it to RHEL 5.6 and 5.7 clients. quota and xfs_quota on the server
> show a user using ~5.8T, but quota on a client only shows ~1.8T.
>
> Server:
> nfs2:~$ cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga)
> nfs2:~$ uname -a
> Linux nfs2 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri Aug 26 18:49:02 EDT 2011 x86_64
> x86_64
> nfs2:~$ rpm -qa | grep xfsprogs
> xfsprogs-2.9.4-1.el5.centos
> nfs2:~$ sudo quota -s -v -u krieger
> Disk quotas for user krieger (uid 3105):
> Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit
> grace
> /dev/mapper/primaryfs_vg-primaryfs
> 5901G 0 0 310k 0 0
> nfs2:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/xfs_quota
> xfs_quota> quota -u -h krieger
> Disk quotas for User krieger (3105)
> Filesystem Blocks Quota Limit Warn/Time Mounted on
> /dev/primaryfs_vg/primaryfs
> 5.8T 0 0 00 [------] /export/wrkdir20
> xfs_quota> quit
>
> Client:
> pacman1:~$ cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga)
> pacman1:~$ uname -a
> Linux pacman1 2.6.18-238.19.1.563g0000.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 15 20:26:36
> EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> pacman1:~$ sudo quota -s -v -u krieger
> Disk quotas for user krieger (uid 3105):
> Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit
> grace
> nfs2:/export/wrkdir20
> 1806G 0 0 310k 0 0
That looks like a 32bit variable overflow. In 512 byte blocks
(sectors), 2^32 sectors overflows at 2T. And 5.8T ~= 2T + 2T + 1.8T.
This is most likely to be an NFS issue - I'm not familiar with the
Linux NFS quota protocol implementation, so I can't really say much
more than that.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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