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