Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 [LWN.net]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7

Posted Jul 28, 2008 2:41 UTC (Mon) by mrons (subscriber, #1751)
In reply to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 by dowdle
Parent article: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7

Thanks for pointing that out. That is a surprise.

I wonder which filesystem you are supposed to use with quotas then? I thought ext3 was the
filesystem of choice for Red Hat systems.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7

Posted Jul 29, 2008 9:10 UTC (Tue) by barryn (subscriber, #5996) [Link]

FWIW, according to the known issues in the release notes:

Red Hat discourages the use of quota on EXT3 file systems. This is because in some cases, doing so can cause a deadlock.
Testing has revealed that kjournald can sometimes block some EXT3-specific callouts that are used when quota is running. As such, Red Hat does not plan to fix this issue in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, as the modifications required would be too invasive.
Note that this issue is not present in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.