OK, got it - the newer XFS patches don't use that syntax anymore. You now need to pass "rootflags=quota" at the boot prompt.
At least it wasn't all that obvious - the new syntax doesn't seem to mentioned anywhere besides the XFS mailing lists. --Todd Todd Pytel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running Woody with a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel + SGI XFS patch. I've used > quotas before, but not with XFS. So maybe I'm missing something... > > The man pages say that to activate quotas on a root XFS filesystem, > you simply do "quotaon -v /". But if I do that, I get "quotaon: > quotactl() on /dev/hda1: function not implemented". I have XFS quotas > configured in the kernel, and they are reported in dmesg. The help > for that option says that generic CONFIG_QUOTA support is not > required, but I've tried that too. The mount man page claims that > "quota" is a valid xfs mount option, but remounts fail with a bad > option error. I also tried rebuilding the quota package from the > source deb. Same deal. > > I must be missing something obvious... > > --Todd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]