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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Just to be clear. The rquota code worked fine (but didn't do group quotas). My changes to the code caused the problems.<BR>
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Suvendra<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org<BR>
To: Andreas Dilger<BR>
CC: Tian ZhiYong; lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<BR>
Sent: Thu Aug 21 07:25:18 2008<BR>
Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Liblustreapi crash<BR>
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My first post was code based on Jim Garlick's rquota code. That is what<BR>
crashed the MDS.<BR>
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Suvendra.<BR>
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On 8/21/08 5:12 AM, "Andreas Dilger" <adilger@sun.com> wrote:<BR>
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> On Aug 19, 2008 10:36 -0400, Suvendra Nath Dutta wrote:<BR>
>> Since this got no response, I wanted to add that fundamentally we just want<BR>
>> to get group quota limits. So right now we are reduced to calling lfs quota<BR>
>> -g group and then parsing the output of that call to something sensible and<BR>
>> printing to screen. Is this the expected protocol? Any thought on how to<BR>
>> make this work seamlessly through linux quota?<BR>
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> The problem with the linux quota tools (and the API in general) is that<BR>
> it requires a block device to work on, which just doesn't exist for a<BR>
> network filesystem.<BR>
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> I know that both LLNL and NERSC have modified quota tools that work for<BR>
> both Lustre and other filesystems, using the llapi_quotactl() function<BR>
> instead of calling the quotactl() syscall for Lustre filesystems.<BR>
><BR>
> Cheers, Andreas<BR>
> --<BR>
> Andreas Dilger<BR>
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group<BR>
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.<BR>
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