We have been using ZFS for user home directories for a good while now.
When we discovered the problem with full filesystems not allowing
deletes over NFS, we became very anxious to fix this; our users fill
their quotas on a fairly regular basis, so it's important that they
have a simple recourse to fix this (e.g., rm). I played around with
this on my OpenSolaris box at home, read around on mailing lists, and
concluded that the 'refquota' property would solve this. With some
trepidation, we decided at work that we would ignore the problem and
wait for 10u6, at which point we would put the value of the quota
property in the refquota property, and set quota=none. We did this a
week or so ago, and we're still having the problem. Here's an
example:
(on the client workstation)
wil...@chasca:~$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=bigfile
dd: closing output file `bigfile': Disk quota exceeded
wil...@chasca:~$ rm bigfile
rm: cannot remove `bigfile': Disk quota exceeded
wil...@chasca:~$ strace rm bigfile
execve("/bin/rm", ["rm", "bigfile"], [/* 57 vars */]) = 0
(...)
access("bigfile", W_OK) = 0
unlink("bigfile") = -1 EDQUOT (Disk quota exceeded)
(on the NFS server)
wil...@c64:~$ rm bigfile
(no error)
This is a big problem. We don't want to allow (or force) users to log
in to the NFS server to delete files. Why is the behavior different
over NFSv3/4 (I tried both, same problem both times) versus locally?
In case it matters, here are the properties of the filesystem above:
# zfs get all home1/willm1
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
home1/willm1 type filesystem -
home1/willm1 creation Mon Jun 2 14:37 2008 -
home1/willm1 used 3.47G -
home1/willm1 available136M -
home1/willm1 referenced 3.47G -
home1/willm1 compressratio1.00x -
home1/willm1 mounted yes-
home1/willm1 quotanone default
home1/willm1 reservation none default
home1/willm1 recordsize 128K default
home1/willm1 mountpoint /export/home1/willm1 inherited from home1
home1/willm1 sharenfs rw=cmscnet inherited from home1
home1/willm1 checksum on default
home1/willm1 compression offdefault
home1/willm1 atimeon default
home1/willm1 devices on default
home1/willm1 exec on default
home1/willm1 setuid on default
home1/willm1 readonly offdefault
home1/willm1 zonedoffdefault
home1/willm1 snapdir hidden default
home1/willm1 aclmode groupmask default
home1/willm1 aclinherit restricted default
home1/willm1 canmount on default
home1/willm1 shareiscsi offdefault
home1/willm1 xattron default
home1/willm1 copies 1 default
home1/willm1 version 1 -
home1/willm1 utf8only off-
home1/willm1 normalizationnone -
home1/willm1 casesensitivity sensitive -
home1/willm1 vscanoffdefault
home1/willm1 nbmand offdefault
home1/willm1 sharesmb offdefault
home1/willm1 refquota 3.60G local
home1/willm1 refreservation none default
Any suggestions are welcome. If we can't resolve this we'll have to
investigate other options for our home directories; going without
quotas is unacceptable for administrative reasons, and other options
don't have this problem.
Thanks,
Will
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