trying to avoid a lengthy quotacheck by deleting all quota data

[Harry Percival]

Glad we managed to nail down a probable culprit!   Here's hoping Debian 
and Ubuntu pull in a new kernel :)

In other news, any advice on running this

     xfstests:src/bstat

command as a way of estimating how long a quotacheck will take? Would it 
still be a useful estimator?  Do you think it would significantly affect 
the performance of a disk that's under fairly heavy use?

hp

On 05/03/15 20:08, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 3/5/15 12:07 PM, Harry wrote:
>> Here's the syslog, if you're curious.
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=kKvWJcze
>>
>> Search for "Failed to initialize"
> Ok, there is no other message offering more info, sadly.
>
>> So your best guess is that it's the drbd layer that's causing the
>> quotacheck?  Out of curiosity, i may try mounting a non-drbd drive
>> with xfs, and seeing if we can still repro the
>> hard-reboot-causes-quotacheck thing...  Unless you think it's just an
>> old behaviour that's more to do with the version of the kernel we're
>> using?
> I really don't have a good guess at this point..... oh, wait, finally,
> a bell goes off:
>
> commit 5ef828c4152726f56751c78ea844f08d2b2a4fa3
> Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>
> Date:   Mon Aug 4 11:35:44 2014 +1000
>
>      xfs: avoid false quotacheck after unclean shutdown
>      
>      The commit
>      
>      83e782e xfs: Remove incore use of XFS_OQUOTA_ENFD and XFS_OQUOTA_CHKD
>      
>      added a new function xfs_sb_quota_from_disk() which swaps
>      on-disk XFS_OQUOTA_* flags for in-core XFS_GQUOTA_* and XFS_PQUOTA_*
>      flags after the superblock is read.
>      
>      However, if log recovery is required, the superblock is read again,
>      and the modified in-core flags are re-read from disk, so we have
>      XFS_OQUOTA_* flags in memory again.  This causes the
>      XFS_QM_NEED_QUOTACHECK() test to be true, because the XFS_OQUOTA_CHKD
>      is still set, and not XFS_GQUOTA_CHKD or XFS_PQUOTA_CHKD.
>      
>      Change xfs_sb_from_disk to call xfs_sb_quota_from disk and always
>      convert the disk flags to in-memory flags.
>      
>      Add a lower-level function which can be called with "false" to
>      not convert the flags, so that the sb verifier can verify
>      exactly what was on disk, per Brian Foster's suggestion.
>      
>      Reported-by: Cyril B. <cbay at excellency.fr>
>      Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>
>
>
> 83e782e went in at v3.11; the above commit hit v3.17, so it was broken
> for a while.
>
> I still can't explain the "quota init failed" bit, but the above
> probably explains the unexpected quotacheck problem.
>
> -Eric
>
>> HP

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