Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:30:24 +1100
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: "DICKENS,CARY (HP-Loveland,ex2)" <cary.dickens2@hp.com>
Cc: "'Antonio Ciorri'" <aciorri@ciprico.com>,
   "'linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com'" <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Quota enable & disable.
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hi,

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 06:45:28PM -0500, DICKENS,CARY (HP-Loveland,ex2) wrote:
> Antonio,
> 
> I'm no expert, but I have been able to turn enforcement on and off without
> any problems.  I can't remember when it happened, but there were some
> changes to the quota system that made it impossible to remount a volume and
> turn quotas on.  Earlier xfs versions allowed this, the current versions do

Enabling quota during remount has never been implemented in XFS.

> not.  The volume in question must be mounted with quotas enabled and then
> you toggle enforcement on and off.

*nod*

> What mount options do you use?  I know that I _might_ want to have quotas on
> a file volume I am using, so I mount it with the following quota options:
> quota,qnoenforce,grpquota,gqnoenforce

Your *noenforce options will be ignored because you have also
given the enforce options (quota,grpquota).  I think what you
intended was just "uqnoenforce,gqnoenforce".

cheers.

-- 
Nathan