From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why isn't quota dependant on ext2?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:48:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030122134844.2a74c588.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301222105.h0ML5t719018@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> >> > ext3, ufs and udf also use the core quota code.
> >>
> >> The documentation says it only works with ext2 where would I find working
> >> utilities to get it working on ext3 ?
> >
> > ext3 uses the same tools as ext2 - checkquota, quotaon, etc.
> >
> > http://quota-tools.sourceforge.net/ (site seems to be broken)
>
> The bad news is that quota on ext3 is virtually guaranteed
> to deadlock, so you can do it, but you do not want to do it.
Darnit, I had all that working 18 months ago ;)
> The original memo describes a deadlock in RH 2.4.18-5, which
> I assure you, was NOT fixed in Marcelo 2.4.20.
Yes, that's a common ext3 problem. A journal_start()/journal_stop() pair is
the same, for locking purposes, as down()/up(). So they need to be ranked
consistently.
Let me crunch on that a bit...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-22 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-22 1:47 why isn't quota dependant on ext2? Gerhard Mack
2003-01-22 2:59 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-22 4:00 ` Gerhard Mack
2003-01-22 4:12 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <mailman.1043208901.31378.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-01-22 21:05 ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-01-22 21:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-01-23 4:25 ` Gerhard Mack
2003-01-24 1:32 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-01-23 7:59 ` Oleg Drokin
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