in the documentation of "user/group limitations" is documented that the admin of the system should in any case add the quota script to a runlevel. this leeds to errors, because on some filesystems, e.g. xfs quotachecks are done internally. somebody who has good knowledge of quotas on most filesystems should change the documenation.
(In reply to comment #0) > in the documentation of "user/group limitations" is documented that the admin > of the system should in any case add the quota script to a runlevel. > this leeds to errors, because on some filesystems, e.g. xfs quotachecks are > done internally. > somebody who has good knowledge of quotas on most filesystems should change the > documenation. I did some thorough reading around at SGI's XFS pages, and its documentation specifically says to install the quota package (yes, the same one that is emerged and added to the default runlevel) in addition to adding kernel-level support for quotas. Without specific information on the nature of the errors you've run into, I'm afraid we can't do much about this except to leave the existing warning (the big red box) as-is.
Please see xfs_quota(8): QUOTA ADMINISTRATION The XFS quota system differs to that of other filesystems in a number of ways. Most importantly, XFS considers quota information as filesystem metadata and uses journaling to provide a higher level guarantee of consistency. As such, it is administered differently, in particular: 1. The quotacheck command has no effect on XFS filesystems. The first time quota accounting is turned on (at mount time), XFS does an auto- matic quotacheck internally; afterwards, the quota system will always be completely consistent until quotas are manually turned off. 2. There is no need for quota file(s) in the root of the XFS filesystem. (...)
(In reply to comment #2) > Please see xfs_quota(8): > > QUOTA ADMINISTRATION > The XFS quota system differs to that of other filesystems in a number > of ways. Most importantly, XFS considers quota information as filesystem > metadata and uses journaling to provide a higher level guarantee of > consistency. As such, it is administered differently, in particular: > > 1. The quotacheck command has no effect on XFS filesystems. The > first time quota accounting is turned on (at mount time), XFS does an auto- > matic quotacheck internally; afterwards, the quota system will > always be completely consistent until quotas are manually turned off. > > 2. There is no need for quota file(s) in the root of the XFS > filesystem. > (...) Interesting, thanks for providing the snippet. For reference, one of the SGI FAQs I found did say to use the quota package, though it also referenced the man page (which is not installed on my system). http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html I'll see about adding a note on this.
Fixed in CVS. Thanks jan for the manpage quote(a). :p
