Disk quotas out of sync

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 13:03:48 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:54:15PM -0400, Simon wrote:
> 
> Yes, I'm running SMP on all machines, version 7.0-R-p2 (amd64 on some).
> No group quotas, just user.

The questions to you:
1. Are inode counts for users coincide with quota report ?
2. How did you compared "actual usage" with the usage reported by
   quota subsystem ?

> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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