+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #821650 +++ Description of problem: Quota exceeds even with the data less than the quota limit. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.3.0qa41 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. created a distribute volume with 2 bricks 2. set quota of 900MB 3. created a file of size 500MB 4. Create another file of size 400MB but when the second file size if still 270MB, "Disk quota exceeded " message was thrown and dd fails. 5. Further creation of files on the mountpoint is possible. Actual results: [root@gqac022 mnt]# dd if=/dev/urandom of=400MB bs=1MB count=400 dd: writing `400MB': Disk quota exceeded 271+0 records in 270+0 records out 270520320 bytes (271 MB) copied, 31.941 s, 8.5 MB/s [root@gqac022 mnt]# echo "akdsjfkasjfkasjdfksajfkasjf" >> 400MB Expected results: Additional info: --- Additional comment from shmohan on 2012-05-15 04:37:04 EDT --- Backend FS XFS with 512 block size. --- Additional comment from vbellur on 2012-05-16 14:24:53 EDT --- Do we need a documentation update for this? --- Additional comment from saujain on 2012-05-31 04:29:43 EDT --- the workaround in the bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765478, needs to be documented --- Additional comment from amarts on 2012-07-11 07:15:28 EDT --- XFS pre-alloc issue. Doc needed.
This information is already added in "Formatting Bricks" section and it is available at:https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2.0/html/Administration_Guide/chap-User_Guide-Setting_Volumes.html#id3369520