[Lustre-discuss] 1.6.4.1 - still max 4TB quotas

[Johann Lombardi]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 03:54:12PM +0100, Niklas Edmundsson wrote:
> > It requires the quota files to be converted from the v1 format 
> > (32-bit) to the v2 format (64-bit). Not as straightforward as you 
> > might think.
> 
> Ah. I thought everything in lustre was 64bit already.

The lustre quota files are now 64bit (the format conversion will be handled
transparently in 1.4.12/1.6.5). Unfortunately, the linux kernel does not support
quotas > 4TB. As a consequence, quota limits > 4TB work only with OSTs smaller
than 4TB for now. A kernel patch is under development in bug 13904.

Johann