quotas on nfs share

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Aldo Foot <lunixer at gmail.com> said:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Chris Adams<cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> <...snip...>
> > If you want to edit quotas remotely, you have to use the -r option to
> > edquota.  This also requires adding the -S option to the rpc.rquotad
> > call (in /etc/sysconfig/nfs on Fedora), but only works in rpc.rquotad
> > was compiled with that support; the version in F9 and F10 was not, but
> > F11 includes this support.
> 
> I wanted to report back on this.
> 
> >From my f11 box I tested using 'edquota -r' and it does see the nfs export
> with quotas in it. I tried to edit quotas by entering numbers, but I cannot
> save the changes because, unfortunately, my Centos 5.3 server does not
> support the -S option to rpc.quotad, even tough the rquotad man page explicitly
> mentions the "-S, --setquota" options.
> I modified the CentOS server /etc/sysconfig/nfs options, but rquotad does
> not like -S.

Since CentOS is based on RHEL, the newest RHEL is RHEL 5, RHEL 5 is
based on FC6, and this option wasn't enabled in Fedora until F11 (hey, I
can chain logic :-) ), I'm not suprised it isn't enabled in CentOS.

I believe CentOS tries to stay as close to RHEL as possible, so I
wouldn't expect them to change this unless Red Hat does.  I am kind of
suprised that Red Hat doesn't have this enabled though; there is a bug
request to have this changed:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469753

Another bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497013

it is stated that this will not change for RHEL 5.  Maybe this will
change for RHEL 6 (since it is now enabled in F11).
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.