From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n2D2SfWR112840 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:29:01 -0500 Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by relay3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F523AC01D for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49B9C2BD.8070802@sgi.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:19:41 +1100 From: Greg Banks MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: issues with project quota over nfs References: <296855.89556.qm@web31805.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <296855.89556.qm@web31805.mail.mud.yahoo.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: brian wince Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com brian wince wrote: > All, > We have a Quad-core server running gentoo 2.6.27-r7 that is used as an > nfs server for a xfs partition. > We are using project quota's on directories within this partition and > exporting this. > When a client tries to untar in the dir with project quotas set and > reaches the quota limit the load on the NFS server goes up > dramatically and stays like this for a few minutes after the tar has > gone through trying to write all of it files and failing due to quota > limit exceeded. > > Is this a known issue and if so is there anything that can be done to > resolve this. You probably want to update the client kernels to have this commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git&a=commit&h=7b159fc18d417980f57aef64cab3417ee6af70f8 > > We do not see this issue if on the locally mounted partition. This > only happens over NFS. > > Please let me know if you need more information or if this should be > addressed on a different list. You should ask NFS questions on the NFS list, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org. -- Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. the brightly coloured sporks of revolution. I don't speak for SGI. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs