do known issues exist when snapshots used with quotas ?

Ensel Sharon user at dhp.com
Tue Mar 14 21:05:25 UTC 2006



On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:10:27AM -0800, Arne Woerner wrote:
> > --- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 12:49:17PM -0500, Ensel Sharon wrote:
> > > > them) - just the quick question:  are there any known issues /
> > > > suspicions / hunches / lore about bad things happening when
> > > > snapshots are combined with quotas ?
> > > 
> > > Yes - I've even posted as such on this very list in the past few
> > > days, so I don't know why you're asking again.
> > > 
> > Hmm...
> > 
> > When was it? I just found some messages (mostly about not further
> > specified bugs)
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2006-March/author.html
> > 
> > But nothing about quota...
> > 
> > Would be astonishing if snapshots have side effects on
> > quota-feature-use, I think...
> 
> Since in 6.0 a) snapshots have bugs, and b) quotas have bugs, it
> should be hardly surprising to you that snapshots have bugs with
> quotas.


I did not see any mention of quotas in the previous several days
discussion, but I am happy to know about it now.

What I _did see_ was:

> Thanks.  There is an uncommitted patch being circulated that is
> believed to address all remaining problems.  It relies on other fixes
> in -CURRENT that are not yet merged, but if you're able to test it let
> me know and I'll forward.

does this ^^^ patch also deal with the quota issues ?

Will this patch be in 6.1-RELEASE ?

Thanka  lot.



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