Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!munnari.oz!kre
From: kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Why does an extra quotaon crash my 11/780?
Message-ID: <2350@munnari.oz>
Date: 7 Sep 88 19:25:35 GMT
References: <22862@amdcad.AMD.COM>
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In article <22862@amdcad.AMD.COM>, news@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