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From: news@amdcad.AMD.COM (Network News)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Why does an extra quotaon crash my 11/780?
Message-ID: <22862@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 88 04:20:10 GMT
Reply-To: hayes@crackle.amd.com (Jim Hayes)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale CA
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I finished setting up quotas on an 11/780 running 4.3, and typed
"/etc/quotaon -v -a".

Instantly the console proclaimed: "panic: closedq: stray dquot" and the
VAX rebooted.  Turns out that quotas were already enabled, but neither
quotaon(8), setquota(2), nor the kernel's quota system seem to check or 
care.

I examined the code for quotaon, setquota, and the kernel code for some
time, and there is no hint of a check.

Did I miss something?   Is this a known "gotcha"?

Curious at best.


-Jim Hayes                         Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale CA.
                                   hayes@amdcad.amd.com
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