Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mulga.OZ Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mulga!kre From: kre@mulga.OZ (Robert Elz) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: 4.2 BSD Disk Quotas -- What are your experiences with it? Message-ID: <462@mulga.OZ> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 06:25:17 EDT Article-I.D.: mulga.462 Posted: Mon Oct 1 06:25:17 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Oct-84 04:48:43 EDT References: <367@felix.UUCP>, <451@uwvax.UUCP> Reply-To: kre@mulga.UUCP (Robert Elz) Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia Lines: 14 In article <451@uwvax.UUCP> dave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs) writes: | If you update a disk quota for a person who is logged in (or has a process | running with his/her uid) the machine will crash with a panic in the | quota routines. So, generally, set quotas when the machine is in single. | If you change them while it is up multiuser (new users is an exception, | chances of them being logged in is minimal) you can crash things. There was a bug that caused a panic if quotas were changed for a user who had recently deleted a file (users logged in, or who have recently been logged in, usually delete quite a few files...). I suspect this is the bug referred to. I will post the fix to net.bugs.4bsd. (The panic this caused was "maknode: dquot", or "mkdir: dquot".) Robert Elz decvax!mulga!kre