6.1 quota issues

[Kostik Belousov]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:41:07AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:47PM -0400 I heard the voice of
> >Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus:
> >>
> >>Trying again, it reported the same inconsistencies then sat there
> >>for more than an hour taking up all the available CPU on the box
> >>until I killed it.  The mtime on quota.user had not changed during
> >>the run.
> >
> >FWIW, I saw this on a box I setup running a late November -CURRENT
> >last year; I could never get the quotas setup and running right
> >because the check always just looped itself up.  The partition they're
> >on has about 3 gig used out of ~45, with maybe a dozen users.  I never
> >spent much time on it, since it's just a personal box, and the quotas
> >are mostly just to provide a handy measure of who's using what (no
> >limits set).  I just gave it up and decided to worry about it later.
> 
> What should I do here?  It's consistently failing.  What information 
> should I gather to forumulate a PR that won't burden the assignee with 
> lots of troubleshooting mess?  The machine is not in production, but there 
> is user data on it.  I could allow a trusted developer access to it, or 
> even create another jail to illustrate the problem.

It is not clear from your report whether you run fsck on the problem
partition. I think (and my view is backed by "unexpected inconsistencies"
message) that this is the must.
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