smw@alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff ) (06/04/91)
My environment is as follows: MIPS M-120/5 under RISC/os 4.01, mounting a file system which is exported from a DECsystem 5500 under ULTRIX 4.1. The file system has quotas established on the ULTRIX side. Users on the MIPS, whose home directories are on the NFS-mounted file system, are generally able to work normally. However, *some* users (and I haven't been able to establish anything in common about the ones in question) experience a complete inability to write any files. In fact, any file these unfortunate people attempt to write ends up at zero length. Worse, any existing file they attemp to rewrite (as in :wq in vi, for example) is truncated to zero length. Clearly this is not acceptable behaviour! The question, of course, is what's going on? Are ULTRIX quotas simply not supported in an NFS environment? Is there something I have to do on the RISC/os (MIPS) side? Note that both of the two users who have reported this problem to me were well below their quota at the time. The only workaround I've found is to set the quota to zero (ie unlimited) for the affected users. I could just turn quotas off altogether, but I need them in place. (We have a 1-Gb disk fully allotted to these users. Half of it is currently used, and ~85% of it is currently committed in established quotas. New users are being added all the time. I desperately need a way to prevent a few people from making the system unusable for everyone else.) Help!!! Any assistance will be gratefully appreciated. Thanks in advance! - Steven ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven Winikoff smw@alcor.concordia.ca Software Analyst Dept. of Computing Services Concordia University voice: (514) 848-7619 Montreal, Quebec, Canada (10:00-18:00 EST)
schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) (06/04/91)
In article <smw.676044941@alcor> smw@alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff ) writes: >The question, of course, is what's going on? Are ULTRIX quotas simply >not supported in an NFS environment? Is there something I have to do >on the RISC/os (MIPS) side? > >Note that both of the two users who have reported this problem to me >were well below their quota at the time. > >The only workaround I've found is to set the quota to zero (ie >unlimited) for the affected users. I have seen this problem happen at here between our VAX6310 and DECstation's all running Ultrix 4.x. Some times users will not be able to create any files via NFS (0 length files only). If I do a quotacheck on the remote system everything then works fine. Anyone know if this is a known bug with a patch? Roland -- Roland J. Schemers III Systems/Network Manager schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ultrix) Oakland University schemers@argo.acs.oakland.edu (VMS) Rochester, MI 48309-4401 OU in Michigan! Say it slow: M-i-c-h-i-g-a-n (313)-370-4323