On Friday 07 of June 2013, Dave Chinner wrote: > > I suspect that upon re-mount, XFS is running a quota check on the 14TB > > RAID. My question is: how do I disable the initial quota check so it > > can mount it properly and have quota check run in the background? > > You can't. quotacheck relies on exclusive access to the filesystem, > and so the mount cannot process until it completes. Quotas need to > be consistent before you can start using the filesystem.... > > Now, there's the possibility that we could parallelise quotacheck > because it uses bulkstat for iteration, but somebody would have to > find the time to do that and it won't solve your immediate problem. I'm facing similar problem sometimes. The parallelisation would be nice but I'm missing something more obvious - kind of progress indicator, like printked message (or in proc/sysfs) after processing some known part of job. This is needed purely for estimating downtime of the service. > Hence I suggest just waiting for it to complete - if you have > millions of inodes it could hours to complete, so just let it go > overnight... ... and say users goodbye ;) > > Cheers, > > Dave. -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / maven.pl _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
