[Users] vzquota problem with ploop container ....

[Kir Kolyshkin]

On 09/08/2012 08:54 AM, Rene C. wrote:
> Ah, ok.   So checked the container, has the latest version of quota
> for Centos 5.8 = 3.13.  Is quota for Centos delayed or OVZ a little
> ahead?

Yes, we are ahead, since we're using ext4 on top of ploop.

The problem is, quota utils < 3.17 doesn't support ext4 quotas. That 
essentially means
you will not be able to use in-container per-user and per-group quota on 
CentOS on
ploop (unless, of course, you manually upgrade quota utils to >= 3.17).

>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org> wrote:
>> This is about native quota tools installed into container, not vzquota.
>>
>> The message means you will not be able to use usual Unix per user and per
>> group quota inside this container due to old quota utils installed inside
>>
>> On Sep 7, 2012 10:24 AM, "Rene C." <openvz at dokbua.com> wrote:
>>> So now I have created a ploop account, and when I start it I get this
>>> error:
>>>
>>> # vzctl start 1517
>>> Starting container ...
>>> Adding delta dev=/dev/ploop0 img=/vz2/private/1517/root.hdd/root.hdd (rw)
>>> Mounting /dev/ploop0p1 at /vz2/root/1517 fstype=ext4
>>>
>>> data='balloon_ino=12,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,'
>>> Container is mounted
>>> Adding IP address(es): 209.105.227.151
>>> Setting CPU limit: 50
>>> Setting CPU units: 30000
>>> Setting CPUs: 1
>>> Old quota utils version detected: Quota utilities version 3.13.
>>> Quota utils version should be > 3.16
>>> Container start in progress...
>>>
>>> So I checked for the version of Quota installed:
>>>
>>> # rpm -qa | grep -i quota
>>> vzquota-3.0.12-1.x86_64
>>>
>>> Ok, so it's old .. but ....
>>>
>>> # yum update vzquota
>>> Setting up Update Process
>>> No Packages marked for Update
>>>
>>> What gives?
>>>