Disk quotas out of sync

[Rong-en Fan]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Simon <simon at optinet.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I sent this to freebsd-questions but it went unanswered, hoping for better
> luck here. The issue I'm trying to resolve is this:
>
> Ever since I went from 6.x to 7.0-R I have started experiencing disk quotas
> getting out of sync with the actual amount used. For example, a user with
> 100GB used disk space suddenly shows usage of only 80GB as if the data
> is gone, but it isn't. This forces me to run quotacheck -av often.  Was
> something changed regarding quotas in 7.0-R? Nobody else noticed this issue?
> I have this issue across multiple, different hardware, servers running 7.0-R
>
> Thank you for any insight and help in advance!

Are you running SMP? Quotas in 7.x and 6.x (since this May) become MPSAFE.
I'm CC'ing kib@ who wrote the patch, maybe he has some insights.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan