It's a real pain not having a spare filer to test things on ...
I was hoping that all the quota-related nasties (153377, 154530) were well and truely fixed now and that I wouild be able to upgrade from 6.5.4 to 7.0.1R1(maybe P<something>) later this month. But then this appears on NOW:
Bug ID 155441 Title: cp -p, chown, chgrp may erroneously fail due to "Disk quota exceeded" Description: If the default user or group quota for a volume or qtree is set lower than the size of the file whose permissions are being set, the command will fail due to an incorrect assertion that it would put the user over quota. This problem does not manifest when the command is executed by root.
I am assuming that this is Yet Another Bug new in ONTAP 7.x, as AFAIK we have never seen the effect, and it seems to me we would surely be liable to.
Specifically, we have a zero default quota in our /home qtree:
* user@/home 0 0 101 user@/home 80M 8000 102 user@/home 210M 8000 ...
specifically intended to lock out unallocated uids, special uids that aren't meant to be using /home, cancelled accounts, and so on. It works very well.
Has anytoaster suffered the effect described in the bug report?