Re: quotas: failure on removing a file via SFTP/SSH

[ST <smntov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 20:28 +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> 
> On 2017年11月21日 20:08, ST wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to use quotas for a simple chrooted sftp setup, limiting
> > space for each user's subvolume (now for testing to 1M).
> > 
> > I tried to hit the limit by uploading files and once it comes to the
> > limit I face following problem: if I try to free space by removing a
> > file via Linux sftp client (or Filezilla) - I get error:
> > "Couldn't delete file: Failure"
> > 
> > Sometimes, but not always, if I repeat it for 3-5 times it does removes
> > the file at the end.
> > If I login as root and try to remove the file via SSH I get the error:
> > "rm: cannot remove 'example.txt': Disk quota exceeded"
> > 
> > What is the problem? And how can I solve it?
> 
> Kernel version first.
> 
> If it's possible, please use latest kernel, at least newer than v4.10,
> since we have a lot of qgroup reservation related fixes in newer kernel.
> 
> Then, for small quota, due to the nature of btrfs metadata CoW and
> relative large default node size (16K), it's quite easy to hit disk
> quota for metadata.

Yes, but why I get the error specifically on REMOVING a file? Even if I
hit disk quota - if I free up space - it should be possible, isn't it?

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