From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Clients not displaying NFS quotas
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 06:21:20 -0700
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To: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 11:43 +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> We have a Slackware 9.1 box (with numerous software upgrades) exporting a
> directory to various NFS clients.  While running a 2.4.x kernel this all
> worked fine - users on clients could use "quota" to display their quota
> information.  When the system was moved to a 2.6.19.2 kernel a few months
> ago the clients could no longer display quota information.  The server
> still knew and enforced the quotas, it's just that from the client's
> point of view there were no quotas.
> 
> The system is running the following software versions:
> 
>   * kernel 2.6.19.2
>   * nfs-utils 1.0.10
>   * util-linux 2.12
>   * portmap 5.0
> 
> The filesystem concerned is reiserfs3.  The kernel has reiserfs quota
> support enabled.
> 
> The relevant partition is mounted on the server using an fstab entry of
> 
>   /dev/...  /home/foobar  reiserfs  usrquota
> 
> All clients mount the volume via the automounter with the "hard,intr,bg"
> mount options.
> 
> Users cannot log into the NFS server.
> 
> We have clients running various versions of redhat, fedora and slackware
> with different kernels.  In all cases things worked with the 2.4.x
> kernel and don't now.  It therefore seems to be a server-related issue.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea as to why client access to quota information
> isn't working in this scenario?

The NFS protocol doesn't support quotas, so those have to be transmitted
using a sideband protocol. Check that you have the 'quotad' daemon
running on your server, and that it is accessible from the clients.

Trond


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