Re: system/1534: quota over 4gb

[Artur Grabowski <art_(_at_)_stacken_(_dot_)_kth_(_dot_)_se>]

The following reply was made to PR system/1534; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Artur Grabowski <art_(_at_)_stacken_(_dot_)_kth_(_dot_)_se>
To: fabien_(_at_)_pouxvert_(_dot_)_dyndns_(_dot_)_org
Cc: gnats_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
Subject: Re: system/1534: quota over 4gb
Date: 28 Nov 2000 19:20:14 +0100

 Fabien SEISEN <fabien_(_dot_)_seisen_(_at_)_IDEALX_(_dot_)_com> writes:
 
 > it is impossible to have 4gb et more quota.
 > The counter is coded in 32bits.
 > /usr/include/ufs/ufs/quota.h
 > in struct dqblk:
 > u_int32_t dqb_bhardlimit;       /* absolute limit on disk blks alloc */
 > u_int32_t dqb_bsoftlimit;       /* preferred limit on disk blks */
 > u_int32_t dqb_curblocks;        /* current block count */
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >         <code/input/activities to reproduce the problem (multiple lines)>
 > edquota user_foo
 > and set more than  4194303 (2^32-1)
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > replace u_int32_t by u_int64_t
 
 That's not a fix, because it wouldn't be backward compatible.
 
 Please note that in struct dqblk the sizes are in _blocks_ not in bytes, so
 the maximum quota should be much over 4GB. This is probably a bug in edquota
 if it'd not an operator bug (SBS).
 
 //art