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author | mpp <mpp@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-01-25 12:42:18 +0000 |
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committer | mpp <mpp@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-01-25 12:42:18 +0000 |
commit | 938276b2587b4bcf30d2cf0ccf9b994bb40ccb51 (patch) | |
tree | ee58a07f9e3a24027d2adbaa8ee5ec7400cf8078 | |
parent | dc2987aa017ba9819af82e309daeb2bb21558696 (diff) | |
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Add a BUGS section that shows that ids that appear to be
negative are now ignored by the quota system and that extremely
large ids may make quotacheck run for a very long time.
Also mention that "options QUOTA" is required for the kernel
to provide quota support.
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/quotacheck/quotacheck.8 | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/quotacheck/quotacheck.8 b/sbin/quotacheck/quotacheck.8 index 28ed80b..eed8dbf 100644 --- a/sbin/quotacheck/quotacheck.8 +++ b/sbin/quotacheck/quotacheck.8 @@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ with the variable .Ar enable_quotas in .Pa /etc/rc.conf . +The kernel must also be built with +.Cd "options QUOTA" . .Pp The .Nm @@ -159,6 +161,7 @@ default file systems .Xr quota 1 , .Xr quotactl 2 , .Xr fstab 5 , +.Xr rc.conf 5 , .Xr edquota 8 , .Xr fsck 8 , .Xr quotaon 8 , @@ -168,3 +171,12 @@ The .Nm utility appeared in .Bx 4.2 . +.Sh BUGS +The quota system will ignore UIDs or GIDs that would be negative +when evaluated as a signed value. +Typically those types of ids can appear in the file system from NFS +mounts or archive files from other operating systems. +Extremely large UIDs or GIDs will cause +.Nm +to run for an unreasonable amount of time and also produce extremely +large quota data files. |