Re: chown problem on filesystems with quotas

Philippe Troin (phil@fifi.org)
26 Oct 1999 02:40:34 -0700


Jan Kara <jack@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

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> > Have not checked it under 2.2.11 but it seems it does not hang on 2.2.2 and
> > 2.2.10.
> > I'm not THAT sure because this server is newly installed and it has /var
> > separated.
> > I have a lot of servers running 2.2.10 (previously 2.2.2) and they have
> > quotas and chown works
> > Ok. And updatedb also works ok.
> So I might found out what was the problem. It was the deadlock on
> write_dquot() and it is there for ages. I thought I fixed it but it is still
> there only harder to trigger. Try following patch. The problem should go
> away.

Mmh, should this go into 2.2.14 or is already somewhere in the
2.2.1[23] tree ?

Phil.

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