Hi everyone It started with the following error: dev # cp -al dvd dvd2 cp: cannot create hard link ‘dvd2’ to ‘dvd’: Invalid cross-device link "dvd" is in this case a symlink (but I also did the test with special devices). What I did was: copy that symlink from somewhere else, trying to turn on project quotas on a parent directoy of that "dev" directory which gives me: xfs_quota: skipping special file /var/foo/dev/dvd When I examine the inode using xfs_db I get for my "dvd" symlink: core.projid_lo = 0 core.projid_hi = 0 When I create a new symlink "foo" (with the same uid+gid as "dvd") and examine it's inode using xfs_db: core.projid_lo = 2398 core.projid_hi = 61 What I therefore seem to encounter is the problem mentioned in xfs_quota for the project subcommand: An attempt to create a hard link to a file in the tree will only succeed if the project identi‐ fier matches the project identifier for the tree. I could now use xfs_io to fix all special files once (since newly created ones will carry the project id directly), but why does "xfs_quota -x -c 'project -s test1' /var" skip special files if it is clearly possible and required to set the project id on them to have hardlinks working again within the project dir? Thanks in advance, best regards, Tiziano -- stepping stone GmbH Neufeldstrasse 9 CH-3012 Bern Telefon: +41 31 332 53 63 www.stepping-stone.ch tiziano.mueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs