gfs_quota command does NOT exist on clients that are mounting the cluster via nfs. on a standard nfs export from a linux ext3 file system, when you run the quota command from a client, it makes an rpc call to the nfs server, and the nfs server returns the quota on the mounted file system...with gfs as the underlying file system, it doesn't appear the quota values are passed to the exported nfs

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 19:15 -0230, Scott Thistle wrote:

Use gfs_quota command.

man gfs_quota

gfs_quota <list|sync|get|limit|warn|check|init> [OPTION]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Doug Tucker tuckerd@engr.smu.edu wrote: I have 2 machines in a cluster using GFS, that many client mount up via nfs. We use quotas extensively here, is there a way from a client machine to check a users quota? Standard quota command on client machines do not work like they do when checking a non-gfs nfs mounted file system. The quotas do work however, when a user exceeds quota and tries to write a file, it tell them that quota has been exceeded.

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No problem Scott, thanks for the reply, you're the only one that even tried :). Our userbase here has become accustomed to being able to check their quota from any machine they are on, and apparently not being able to do so it just horrible horrible from my boss's standpoint. If there is no way to do this, I'm faced with having to dump the entire filesystems quota every hour or so and write a custom quota command that reads this flat file to return their results, which is ugly ugly if you ask me, but he insists we MUST be able to provide them this info. The file server we are migrating from was a clustered Tru64, and when it starts/exports nfs, it provides nfs with the quota information from the underlying OFS filesystem. Which is 8 years old I might add...I would think somehow GFS with all it's bells and whistles would have this basic functionality.

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 13:13 -0230, Scott Thistle wrote:

Sorry. Misread your requirement..

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Doug Tucker tuckerd@engr.smu.edu wrote: gfs_quota command does NOT exist on clients that are mounting the cluster via nfs. on a standard nfs export from a linux ext3 file system, when you run the quota command from a client, it makes an rpc call to the nfs server, and the nfs server returns the quota on the mounted file system...with gfs as the underlying file system, it doesn't appear the quota values are passed to the exported nfs

    On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 19:15 -0230, Scott Thistle wrote:
    > Use gfs_quota command.
    >
    > man gfs_quota
    >
    > gfs_quota <list|sync|get|limit|warn|check|init> [OPTION]
    >
    >
    >
    > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Doug Tucker
    <tuckerd@engr.smu.edu>
    > wrote:
    >         I have 2 machines in a cluster using GFS, that many
    client
    >         mount up via
    >         nfs.  We use quotas extensively here, is there a way
    from a
    >         client
    >         machine to check a users quota?  Standard quota
    command on
    >         client
    >         machines do not work like they do when checking a
    non-gfs nfs
    >         mounted
    >         file system.  The quotas do work however, when a
    user exceeds
    >         quota and
    >         tries to write a file, it tell them that quota has
    been
    >         exceeded.
    >
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