[Linux-cluster] how to confirm GFS quotas are disabled

[Robert Peterson]

Riaan van Niekerk wrote:
> According to this document:
> https://rpeterso.108.redhat.com/servlets/ProjectDocumentView?documentID=99 
>
> you can get a 5% performance increase by disabling quotas on GFS.
>
> (I am not taking this as gospel, but every couple of percentage points 
> helps)
>
> According to the GFS manual
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/browse/rh-gfs-en/s1-manage-quota.html#S2-MANAGE-QUOTAACCOUNT 
>
> you do this using the following syntax:
>
> gfs_tool settune /mnt/gfs quota_account 0
>
> How do I confirm that quotas have been disabled?
> An indirect (to me) way is to run 'gfs_quota list -f /mnt/gfs' and 
> check if the values in the last field change or not. Nothing in the 
> output of 'gfs_tool quota /mnt/gfs' jumped out at me to say if it is 
> enabled or not
>
> I was hoping there is a more elegant way to check this.
>
> tnx
> Riaan
Hi Riaan,

I think you want:
gfs_tool gettune /mnt/gfs1/ | grep quota_enforce
where /mnt/gfs1/ is your mounted gfs fs, but I haven't actually verified 
it in the code...

Regards,

Bob Peterson
Red Hat Cluster Suite