I wish I had the time right now to look at this. I forwarded your problem to the internal XFS list hopefully one of the other XFS developers will have some time to look at it.
On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 17:50, Thibaut Laurent wrote: > Hi ! > > I'd like to know if anybody (else than me) has had problems with quota support > for XFS in mdk kernels ? I've tried most of these kernels since 2.4.8 (can't > remember the release) to the latest 2.4.13-2mdk, still unsuccessfully, though > quota enforcement works flawlessly with e.g. 2.4.13-xfs or any tree downloaded > from SGI's cvs. > > So here are the details: > > - root filesystem is an XFS partition properly mounted with usrquota,grpquota > options. > > - quotaon -v / produces a nice > "quotaon: quotactl on /dev/hda4 (my root): invalid argument". > Actually 2.4.13-xfs displays those nasty messages too, but alongside a nicer > "Enabling group/user quota on root filesystem (reboot to take effect)" which I > never had the chance to see with -mdk kernels > > - reboot : while mounting the filesystem, 2.4.13-2mdk only displays : > "Start mounting filesystem: ide0(3,4)" and then "Ending clean XFS mount for > filesystem: ide0(3,4)". No mention of quotacheck. > The mount message in 2.4.13-xfs is slightly different and adds a nice "XFS > quotacheck ide0(3,4): Please wait." and then "XFS quotacheck ide0(3,4): Done." > Since the messages displayed by the 2 versions (2.4.13-2mdk and 2.4.13-xfs) > are different, I guess the XFS patch in 2.4.13-2mdk is the same as in > 2.4.8-26mdk, lazily rediffed against the current kernel ? Hey ! put your gun > back in the drawer, I was just teasing you. No one doubts XFS + ac take an > awful lot of time to merge, especially when one has tried to do it... > > - finally, with 2.4.13-2mdk, repquota -v / keeps telling me "repquota: Not all > specified mountpoints are using quota" despite all my insults/threats, and so > does setquota. Again, with 2.4.13-xfs, it works great. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Thibaut >
