Bug 546455
| Summary: | kernel bug: quota file size not a multiple of struct gfs2_quota | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Abhijith Das <adas> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Abhijith Das <adas> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Cluster QE <mspqa-list> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 5.6 | CC: | bmarzins, djansa, iannis, rpeterso, swhiteho, uk | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | 5.5 | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: |
This update removes the unused support for linked lists of quota structures. The newer "gfs2_quota" utilities use the FIEMAP (FIle Extent MAP) ioctl (Input/output control) to discover which parts of the quota file are occupied, and which are empty.
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Story Points: | --- | ||||
| Clone Of: | 536902 | ||||||
| : | 589813 (view as bug list) | Environment: | |||||
| Last Closed: | 2011-01-13 20:57:20 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Depends On: | 536902 | ||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 526947, 589813 | ||||||
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This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. Posted above patch to rhkernel-list. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. in kernel-2.6.18-200.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/jwilson/el5 Detailed testing feedback is always welcomed. 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: This removes the (unused) support from the kernel for a linked list of quota structures. The newer gfs2_quota utilities use the FIEMAP ioctl to discover which parts of the quota file are occupied, and which are empty, rather than the older linked list system. This matches the system adopted in the upstream code.
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
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-This removes the (unused) support from the kernel for a linked list of quota structures. The newer gfs2_quota utilities use the FIEMAP ioctl to discover which parts of the quota file are occupied, and which are empty, rather than the older linked list system.
+This update removes the unused support for linked lists of quota structures. The newer "gfs2_quota" utilities use the FIEMAP (FIle Extent MAP) ioctl (Input/output control) to discover which parts of the quota file are occupied, and which are empty.-
-This matches the system adopted in the upstream code.
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/RHSA-2011-0017.html |
Created attachment 377623 [details] upstream kernel patch to remove quota linked list