[Lustre-discuss] Liblustreapi crash

[Suvendra Nath Dutta]

My first post was code based on Jim Garlick's rquota code. That is what
crashed the MDS.

Suvendra.


On 8/21/08 5:12 AM, "Andreas Dilger" <adilger at sun.com> wrote:

> On Aug 19, 2008  10:36 -0400, Suvendra Nath Dutta wrote:
>> Since this got no response, I wanted to add that fundamentally we just want
>> to get group quota limits. So right now we are reduced to calling lfs quota
>> -g group and then parsing the output of that call to something sensible and
>> printing to screen. Is this the expected protocol? Any thought on how to
>> make this work seamlessly through linux quota?
> 
> The problem with the linux quota tools (and the API in general) is that
> it requires a block device to work on, which just doesn't exist for a
> network filesystem.
> 
> I know that both LLNL and NERSC have modified quota tools that work for
> both Lustre and other filesystems, using the llapi_quotactl() function
> instead of calling the quotactl() syscall for Lustre filesystems.
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
>