Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Quotas broken on DL?

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:

> Heiko Zuerker wrote on 23.12.2003 23:55 MET:
>
>> Bruce Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Here's the new default /etc/sysconfig/lvmtab:
>>> (first column is the lv name under vg devil-linux)
>>>
>>> swap    swap            swap    defaults        0 0
>>> home    /home           auto    defaults        0 0
>>> opt     /opt            auto    defaults        0 0
>>> log     /var/log        auto    defaults        0 0
>>> spool   /var/spool      auto    defaults        0 0
>>> squid   /var/squid      auto    defaults        0 0
>>> tmp     /var/tmp        auto    defaults        0 0
>>> data    /var/data       auto    defaults        0 0
>>> imap    /var/imap       auto    defaults        0 0
>>> mail    /var/mail       auto    defaults        0 0
>>>
>>> Left as-is, the mountfs script will function exactly the same as it 
>>> does
>>> now, using the lvmtab file for it's mount parameters (instead of being
>>> hard coded).  LV's that don't exist will be silently skipped (as 
>>> opposed
>>> to error messages if they were in fstab). As far as sorting by 
>>> depth, it's not going to happen.  The file will be
>>> read sequentially and people will have to add nested mounts in the
>>> correct order in lvmtab.
>>>
>>> This simply gives people the ability the add/change LV's, plus adding
>>> the ability so specify mount options (like "quota").
>>
>>
>> [...]
>> All LVs get mounted under /var when they're not "special".
>> You get a list of all available LVs in this folder: 
>> /proc/lvm/VGs/devil-linux/LVs/
>
>
> If we find a LV xyz in the VG devil-linux that is not listet
> in /etc/sysconfig/lvmtab we try to create /var/xyz/ and mount
> it there. Is that what you mean?

Yes, it was my understanding that we exactly do this.

>> We also have do be carefull, I'm pretty sure a lot of people would 
>> try to mount an LV e.g. under /some-mount-point and then complain it 
>> doesn't work. Of course it will not work, because they can't create 
>> the mount point on the CD....
>
>
> That case can be handled by the script. We can even check the
> directory where the mount should occour and then check if the
> filesystem there is ro or rw. Good point. Better to prepare now
> before the users come asking for help where they shouldn't have
> gone in the first place ;-)

yeah good point.

Heiko