[Lustre-discuss] broken quotas

[Kit Westneat]

Hi John,

My understanding is if your quota files are broken, and lfs quotacheck 
isn't working, you can take a downtime and remount all the devices as 
ldiskfs and delete the lquota files, which should look something like:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6144 Jul 20 09:05 lquota_v2.group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6144 Jul 20 09:05 lquota_v2.user

Then you shoule be able to run lfs quotacheck again.

Of course, mounting as ldiskfs is dangerous, but I think the risk of 
this operation is not so high. I would make sure any crucial data is 
backed up.

- Kit

On 6/28/2012 1:23 PM, John White wrote:
> (sorry if this is a dupe, but it looks like my mails aren't posting to the list)
>
> Hello Folks,
> 	A while back we accidentally started a 1.8.x cluster up with 2.x software (a git command was missed setting it to the 1_8 branch).  During that work, we attempted to enable quotas on 2 file systems (generated the initial file, etc).  Once we realized our mistake, we back-rev'd to the 1.8.x train and most everything went back smoothly except for quotas. Now whenever we attempt any quota related commands, we get ioctl errors.  For example:
> [root at lrc-xfer ~]# lfs quota -u jwhite /clusterfs/vulcan/pscratch
> Unexpected quotactl error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> Disk quotas for user jwhite (uid 40227):
>     Filesystem  kbytes   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
> /clusterfs/vulcan/pscratch
>                    [0]     [0]     [0]       -     [0]     [0]     [0]       -
> Some errors happened when getting quota info. Some devices may be not working or deactivated. The data in "[]" is inaccurate.
> [root at lrc-xfer ~]#
>
> Does anyone know of a way to kick the quota internals to reset themselves and initialize under the 1.8.x setup?
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