That doesn't fully answer the question. How does one deal with this problem *before* patching 5.3.6R2? Does one have to nuke the filer to get quota functional again?

-----Original Message----- From: Heller, Jeffrey [mailto:Jeffrey.Heller@netapp.com] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 6:14 PM To: Krishnan, Prabhakar; Jiang, Perry Cc: toasters Subject: RE: user quota crashes filer

This problem is fixed in 5.3.6R2 which is on NOW as of today.

-----Original Message----- From: Prabhakar Krishnan [mailto:kpkar@netapp.com] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 1:54 PM To: Jiang, Perry Cc: toasters Subject: Re: user quota crashes filer

this was a bug.

- patch is availabe , contact the SE/CS - fixed in the next release

"Jiang, Perry" wrote:

Hi, I have a 740 filer with Data OnTAP 5.3.6 I put a quota entry for username "perry" into /vol/vol0/etc/quotas perry user 50M -

But there is no entry for "perry" in /vol/vol0/etc/passwd, so there is no UID for perry(No NIS running, of course). When I run "quota on vol0", the filer crashes.

I have to boot up the filer from floppy disk, remove the entry of "perry" in /vol/vol0/etc/quotas file, then reboot the filer.

After the filter is up, everything is ok. However, I can't enable quota anymore. Every time I run "quota on vol0", the filer would crash.

The only thing I have in /vol/vol0/etc/quotas now is couple of entries for Qtree quota.

Can anybody explain when the filer still crashes after I remove the "perry" entry? How can I make the quota work again? Do I have to rebuild the filer?

Thanks

Perry Jiang