Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:48:44 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: why isn't quota dependant on ext2? |
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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...
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