Re: why isn't quota dependant on ext2?

[Andrew Morton]

Pete Zaitcev <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> >> > ext3, ufs and udf also use the core quota code.
> >> 
> >> The documentation says it only works with ext2 where would I find working
> >> utilities to get it working on ext3 ?
> > 
> > ext3 uses the same tools as ext2 - checkquota, quotaon, etc.
> > 
> > http://quota-tools.sourceforge.net/ (site seems to be broken)
> 
> The bad news is that quota on ext3 is virtually guaranteed
> to deadlock, so you can do it, but you do not want to do it.

Darnit, I had all that working 18 months ago ;)

> The original memo describes a deadlock in RH 2.4.18-5, which
> I assure you, was NOT fixed in Marcelo 2.4.20.

Yes, that's a common ext3 problem.  A journal_start()/journal_stop() pair is
the same, for locking purposes, as down()/up().  So they need to be ranked
consistently.

Let me crunch on that a bit...