linux-ext4 - Re: Failure in quotaon with kernel 2.6.39 (Was: Regression with ext4 in kernel 2.6.39-rc7?)

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Date:	Thu, 26 May 2011 16:58:46 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Failure in quotaon with kernel 2.6.39 (Was: Regression with
 ext4 in kernel 2.6.39-rc7?)

On Thu 26-05-11 16:01:00, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote:
> >>
> >>  Exactly, that is it. I cannot trigger the problem anymore with the patch.
> >> I just wonder how come you've spotted the problem because test 232 does not
> >> trigger the problem for me -
> >
> > It does not surprise me.
> > As I wrote earlier, my system (Ubuntu 11.4) is behaving strange.
> > Some tests fail the fsck at the end, because the filesystem fails to umount
> > immediately after the test (lsof shows nothing and manual umount succeeds).
> > It's probably the cause for 232 test to fail (even after the crash was fixed)
> > and the cause for quotaoff to be called without quotaon in test 232 on
> > my system.
> >
> >> it is triggered when you run quotaoff without
> >> running quotaon and that does not happen with test 232.. Anyway, with the
> >> attached patch running quotaoff on filesystem without quotas turned on
> >> works fine whereas previously it oopsed.
> 
> So my quota tests (219 and 232) still fail (zero output from repquota)
> and I realized 2 things:
> 
> 1. they don't fail with kernel 2.6.38 (Ubuntu 11.4 shipped kernel)
> 
> 2. what seems to fail is quotaon:
> 
> amir@...ab:~/xfstests$ sudo quotaon /mnt/test/scratch
> quotaon: using /mnt/test/scratch/aquota.user on /dev/sda8
> [/mnt/test/scratch]: No such process
> quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel.
  Hum, how about that you forgot to configure kernel with quota support as
the message suggests? Or that you forgot to enable appropriate quota format
or forgot to load the module (if compiled as such)?

> Which also explains why quotaoff was called without quotaon in my
> original bug report.
> 
> amir@...ab:~/xfstests$ quotaon -V
> Quota utilities version 4.00-pre1.
> Compiled with: USE_LDAP_MAIL_LOOKUP EXT2_DIRECT HOSTS_ACCESS
> ALT_FORMAT RPC RPC_SETQUOTA BSD_BEHAVIOUR
> Bugs to jack@...e.cz

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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