Bug 515697

Summary:	quota: Too many mountpoints
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu>
Component:	quota	Assignee:	Petr Pisar <ppisar>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	4.8	CC:	azelinka, kvolny, ovasik
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Patch
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	quota-3.12-8.el4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Attempting to run the "quota" command on a machine with more than 256 mounted file systems (for example, on machines with a large number of NFS mount points) resulted in the following error message: quota: Too many mountpoints with quota. With this update, this limit has been removed, and the "quota" behavior is no longer affected by the number of mounted file systems.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2010-10-13 13:56:50 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Sachin Prabhu 2009-08-05 12:27:54 UTC

quota-3.12-6.el4-x86_64

A system with a large number of nfs shares mounted gave the following message when the quota command was run


[skaven@svvint11 ~]$ quota
quota: Too many mountpoints with quota. Contact mvw.net, jack


This request is for the following patch to be backported to RHEL 4.
http://linuxquota.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/linuxquota/quota-tools/quotasys.c?r1=1.45&r2=1.46&diff_format=u

Comment 5 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-07-28 11:16:15 UTC

Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
Attempting to run the "quota" command on a machine with more than 256 mounted file systems (for example, on machines with a large number of NFS mount points) resulted in the following error message:

  quota: Too many mountpoints with quota.

With this update, this limit has been removed, and the "quota" behavior is no longer affected by the number of mounted file systems.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2010-10-13 13:56:50 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0767.html