From: "Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz" <arekm@maven.pl>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS Adding Quotas - Skip Quota check on first mount/boot
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 07:04:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201306070704.28004.arekm@maven.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130607035046.GJ29338@dastard>
On Friday 07 of June 2013, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > I suspect that upon re-mount, XFS is running a quota check on the 14TB
> > RAID. My question is: how do I disable the initial quota check so it
> > can mount it properly and have quota check run in the background?
>
> You can't. quotacheck relies on exclusive access to the filesystem,
> and so the mount cannot process until it completes. Quotas need to
> be consistent before you can start using the filesystem....
>
> Now, there's the possibility that we could parallelise quotacheck
> because it uses bulkstat for iteration, but somebody would have to
> find the time to do that and it won't solve your immediate problem.
I'm facing similar problem sometimes. The parallelisation would be nice but
I'm missing something more obvious - kind of progress indicator, like printked
message (or in proc/sysfs) after processing some known part of job.
This is needed purely for estimating downtime of the service.
> Hence I suggest just waiting for it to complete - if you have
> millions of inodes it could hours to complete, so just let it go
> overnight...
... and say users goodbye ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / maven.pl
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-07 5:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-07 2:59 XFS Adding Quotas - Skip Quota check on first mount/boot Adam Brenner
2013-06-07 3:50 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-07 5:04 ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz [this message]
2013-06-07 5:57 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-07 5:25 ` Adam Brenner
2013-06-07 6:10 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-07 6:36 ` Stan Hoeppner
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