[Cluster-devel] [GFS2 PATCH] - Bug 675944 - gfs2 quota allows exceeding hard limit

[Steven Whitehouse]

Hi,

On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 10:40 -0500, Abhijith Das wrote:
> Immediately after being synced to disk, cached quotas are zeroed out and a subsequent access of the cached quotas results in incorrect zero values. This meant that gfs2 assumed the actual usage to be the zero (or near-zero) usage values it found in the cached quotas and comparison against warn/limits never triggered a quota violation.
> 
> This patch adds a new flag QDF_REFRESH that is set after a sync so that the cached quotas are forcefully refreshed from disk on a subsequent access on seeing this flag set.
> 
> Resolves: rhbz#675944
> Signed-off-by: Abhi Das <adas at redhat.com>

Now in the -nmw git tree. Thanks,

Steve.