On Tuesday 23 November 2004 10:53, Philippe Gramoullé wrote: > > Hello, > > Currently we use some Linux NFS servers with 2.4.25 kernel patched to support quotas. > > Since we face some I/O issues, i'd like to try out a 2.6.x kernel but quota support is mandatory. > > So my question: is quota support for 2.6.x ( 2.6.9 and above preferably) available and considered stable enough > to be used in heavy production environment ( high I/O pretty much 24/24 ) ? > > If yes, which kernel do i need, and where can i find the quota patches ? > > I've found some old quota patch (for 2.6.5 from march 2004) on Chris Mason suse FTP experimental directory and i also > saw that Jan Kara has posted several quota patches recently. > > Thanks for a quick update on this topic. > > Truly yours, > > Philippe > > -- > > Philippe Gramoullé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > System & Network Administrator > Lycos Europe >
Quotas are in kernel 2.6 and supported by ext2,ext3,reiserfs,xfs. Reiserfs doesn't need an extra patch for quotas, data journalling or extended attributes. Everything is right there for kernels > 2.6.5 if I remember right. Jan Kara from SuSE labs recently discoverd a deadlock in the linux quota system, see: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=110085816900002&r=1&w=2 I guess it would be wise to wait with the migration till these patches make it into some official 2.6 kernel release. -- lg, Chris
