Re: XFS / Quota Bug in 2.6.17.x and 2.6.18x

[ProfiHost - Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.com>]

Hi!

 >>The pre barrier check for normal mount works without any problems.
 > Dang, I forgot that hda is a little older and does not support
 > barriers. /me slaps himself.
That matches for me too. My drives are also too old to support barriers. 
It occours on about 35 servers - so not all filesystems could be damaged.

So please recheck the following:

1.) You need a Kernel, where barriers are on by default:
so something like: 2.6.16.2x or 2.6.17.x
I'm not shure of the minimal version for the 2.6.16.x Kernel tree.

2.) that hda2 is / on your system

3.) you boot your system with kernel option rootflags=quota

4.) do not use mount, to deactivate quota - use quotaoff / command

5.) then reboot your system...


Stefan

Jan Engelhardt schrieb:
>>This only happens, if your partition is the root partition of the whole system
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> It is..
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>>and it is mounted read only on system start up.
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> It is...
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>>The pre barrier check for normal mount works without any problems.
> Dang, I forgot that hda is a little older and does not support barriers. 
> /me slaps himself.
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> Jan Engelhardt