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

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Message-ID: <20060729075054.B2222647@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com>
Date:	Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:50:54 +1000
From:	Nathan Scott <nathans@....com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	ProfiHost - Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@...fihost.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: XFS / Quota Bug in  2.6.17.x and 2.6.18x

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:11:31PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> > The crash only occurs if you use quota and IDE without barrier support.
> 
> I don't quite get this. I do use quota, and have barriers turned 
> off (either explicitly or because the drive does not support it),
> but yet no error message like you posted. Do I just have luck?

Heh, no - its more likely you just haven't needed to do a quotacheck
on a filesystem thats initially mounted readonly (like root often is).
I'm guessing you had quota enabled from earlier barrier-unaware kernels
and quotacheck only needs to be run during that initial mount.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan
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