Disk quotas out of sync

[Simon]

Yes, I'm running SMP on all machines, version 7.0-R-p2 (amd64 on some).
No group quotas, just user.

Thanks,
Simon

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:36:43 +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote:

>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