XFS Adding Quotas - Skip Quota check on first mount/boot

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz]

On Friday 07 of June 2013, Dave Chinner wrote:

> > I suspect that upon re-mount, XFS is running a quota check on the 14TB
> > RAID. My question is: how do I disable the initial quota check so it
> > can mount it properly and have quota check run in the background?
> 
> You can't. quotacheck relies on exclusive access to the filesystem,
> and so the mount cannot process until it completes. Quotas need to
> be consistent before you can start using the filesystem....
> 
> Now, there's the possibility that we could parallelise quotacheck
> because it uses bulkstat for iteration, but somebody would have to
> find the time to do that and it won't solve your immediate problem.

I'm facing similar problem sometimes. The parallelisation would be nice but 
I'm missing something more obvious - kind of progress indicator, like printked 
message (or in proc/sysfs) after processing some known part of job.

This is needed purely for estimating downtime of the service.

> Hence I suggest just waiting for it to complete - if you have
> millions of inodes it could hours to complete, so just let it go
> overnight...

... and say users goodbye ;)

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.


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