Bug#419049: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Re: Bug#419049: quota: Causes shutdown

[Michael Meskes]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:34:45PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Other users with similar problems might find the report if it's listed
> > with network-manager but they certainly won't find it under quota.
> 
> I don't understand this logic. This error only happens when you have a
> setup which uses quota and it's the quota process that hangs.
> So, the first thing people will be looking for (as did John), is a
> problem with quota.

Sorry, I should have explained better. I was talking about the other
problems arising from the network device being downed before a lot of
servers and before network filesystems are unmounted. IMO this is way
more severe than quota hanging.

> > If this is the only solution, fine, but it has to be documented IMO.
> 
> Who said it's the only solution?

Oops, please remove the word "only" from my statement.

> > But I don't think it makes sense to discuss this detail because more
> > severe problems seem to arise from this setup.
> 
> Well, then it probably it should be documented within the quota package,
> that it can't deal with network outages.

Oh come on. I was talking about the bigger picture.

Michael
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