Why does an extra quotaon crash my 11/780?

Robert Elz kre at munnari.oz
Thu Sep 8 05:25:35 AEST 1988


In article <22862 at amdcad.AMD.COM>, news at amdcad.AMD.COM (Network News) writes:
> Turns out that quotas were already enabled, but neither quotaon(8),
> setquota(2), nor the kernel's quota system seem to check or care.

The intention is that you should be able to use quota(2) to switch from one
quota file to another, without losing any data, though exactly why I thought
this would be a useful thing to do is a mystery to me now.

Re-enabling the same quota file should be a harmless no-op.

The kernel is supposed to hadle it (the test is the first executable line
in opendq() in quota_kern.c), though I must admit to not having tested
this in quite a long time.

kre



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