Bug#695640: xfs_quota: cannot find mount point for path: Success

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:19:16PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> On 19 March 2013 17:31, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> 
> > Which tells me exactly what is happening.
> >
> > The project quotas are not on the filesystem you directed the the
> > quota command at, and xfs_quota is telling you that it can't find
> > the mount point for the configured project quotas on /home. Either:
> >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> I am kind of confused still. I asked for user quotas, with the -u flag. Why
> should it be trying to lookup project quotas?

Because the quota command does mount point and project quota
initialisation (i.e. global state) before it parses any specific
command.

> I only want to get the report of user quotas. I only want to get the report
> for one filesystem. A filesystem that
> doesn't support project quotas, which should be fine because I am not
> asking for project quotas.

The issues project quota configuration is global information, and
the initialisation code is not aware of the fact that:

	a) you are not asking for project quota information; and
	b) you are not asking for information about a mount point
	   that doesn't have any project quotas on it.

> > # xfs_quota  -x -c "quota -N -u brian"
> 
> This prints the quota information 20 times. Huh?

How many mount points do you have? 20?

> > or
> >
> > # xfs_quota  -x -c "quota -N -u brian" /home /share
> >
> 
> This prints the quota information 2 times. Huh?

The command has once for each of the mount points, and the command
itself iterates mount points because you haven't given it a mount
point to look at. So, double iteration.  This same problem was fixed
for the report command by setting it to be a global command i.e. the
fix I mentioned previously that you tested should prevent this
second case, and maybe even the first.

There are several layers of interactions here, and that's why I need
to have a think about it to understand it fully and fix it....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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