On 2010-07-06, at 10:10, Fan Yong wrote: > On 7/5/10 4:21 PM, Gizo Nanava wrote: >> we wounder whether is it possible to add OSTs to the Lustre with >> quota support without making it offline? >> We tried to do this but all quota information was lost. Despite the fact >> that OST was formatted with quota support >> we are receiving this error message: >> >> Lustre: 3743:0:(lproc_quota.c:447:lprocfs_quota_wr_type()) >> lustrefs-OST0016: quotaon failed because quota files don't exist, please >> run quotacheck firstly >> >> The message suggest to run the quotacheck command again, but maybe there >> is a faster solution. >> > > Quotacheck is the normal process, but it maybe some slowly. > > The basic idea is to generate lquota_v2.user / lquota_v2.group without > quotacheck on target Lustre system, there are other similar ways for that.
To be honest, I don't think this is a desirable solution. It should be possible to automatically create these quota files the first time that a new OST is mounted, since we know at that point that the filesystem is empty and there will be no quota usage for any user on the OST. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Lustre Technical Lead Oracle Corporation Canada Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
