On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:13 PM, David Wolfskill <da...@catwhisker.org> wrote: > I recently found that, running FreBSD/i386 stable/8 as of around > r221857, the disk quota subsystem appears to overflow & wrap as it > crosses the 2TB mark. > > Evidence: I ran a task in a loop, invoking "quota -h" after each > iteration. Each invocation should write about 114.2GB to the file > system. Eliding redundant headers, a relevant excerpt of the output, > along with "df -h" output for the file system in question: > > Disk quotas for user ,...] (uid 9874): > Filesystem usage quota limit grace files quota limit grace > /d 1.8T 0B 0B 25217562 0 0 > /d 1.9T 0B 0B 26793658 0 0 > /d 14G 0B 0B 28369755 0 0 > ... > /d 815G 0B 0B 39402435 0 0 > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/mfid1 15T 2.8T 11T 19% /d > > Now, this is a machine I'm testing -- I'm the only one writing to > that file system (other than the quota.user file). > > Now, I don't have a defined quota; the intent is not to use the quota > subsystem to restrict how myuch disk space folks use, but rather, to use > it to measure and track the usage. > > For this purpose, I really have no particular desire for precision to > the KB; precision could easily be as coarse as to the GB and still be > useful -- for this purpose, under these circumstances. > > Does anyone see a way to use the disk quota subsystem to track storage >>2TB on a single (UFS2) file system?
des@ and mckusick@ completed the 64-bit quota work on CURRENT last year, but it hasn't been MFCed to 8-STABLE (probably because it breaks KBIs). More info can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html . HTH, -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"