On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:41:07AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > >On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:47PM -0400 I heard the voice of > >Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus: > >> > >>Trying again, it reported the same inconsistencies then sat there > >>for more than an hour taking up all the available CPU on the box > >>until I killed it. The mtime on quota.user had not changed during > >>the run. > > > >FWIW, I saw this on a box I setup running a late November -CURRENT > >last year; I could never get the quotas setup and running right > >because the check always just looped itself up. The partition they're > >on has about 3 gig used out of ~45, with maybe a dozen users. I never > >spent much time on it, since it's just a personal box, and the quotas > >are mostly just to provide a handy measure of who's using what (no > >limits set). I just gave it up and decided to worry about it later. > > What should I do here? It's consistently failing. What information > should I gather to forumulate a PR that won't burden the assignee with > lots of troubleshooting mess? The machine is not in production, but there > is user data on it. I could allow a trusted developer access to it, or > even create another jail to illustrate the problem.
It is not clear from your report whether you run fsck on the problem partition. I think (and my view is backed by "unexpected inconsistencies" message) that this is the must.
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