On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 02:08 +0000, Jonathan Miles wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What's the status of quota and JFS in the Linux kernel?

It was broken for a while, but fixed in 2.6.18.

> I tried to setup quota with JFS for the first time today, but can't seem
> to get it working with 2.6.17 and quotautils 3.13. The partition is
> mounted as / with {usr,grp}quota options and the quota files have been
> created.
> 
> # mount
> /dev/sda2 on / type jfs (rw,usrquota,grpquota,errors=remount-ro)
> 
> When running quotaon, I get the following:
> 
> # quotaon /
> quotaon: using //aquota.group on /dev/sda2 [/]: Invalid argument
> quotaon: Maybe create new quota files with quotacheck(8)?
> quotaon: using //aquota.user on /dev/sda2 [/]: Invalid argument
> quotaon: Maybe create new quota files with quotacheck(8)?

This problem was reported here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6872
and it's fixed in the 2.6.18 kernel.

> open("//aquota.user", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
> ...
> quotactl(
>    Q_QUOTAON|USRQUOTA,
>    "/dev/sda2",
>    2,
>    {
>   7022360269181497135, 4971974479945364782, 244813135896,
>   7018986666877744431, 7809632559044715890, 7021225542849146213,
>   6076814323885239139, 4064063760383880518
>    }
> ) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> 
> I checked the quotautils code and it has JFS support compiled in, but
> don't know the kernel code well enough to check what's going on there.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jon.

Thanks,
Shaggy
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center


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