3.5.3. Synchronizing Quotas
GFS2 stores all quota information in its own internal file on disk. A GFS2 node does not update this quota file for every file system write; rather, it updates the quota file once every 60 seconds. This is necessary to avoid contention among nodes writing to the quota file, which would cause a slowdown in performance.
As a user or group approaches their quota limit, GFS2 dynamically reduces the time between its quota-file updates to prevent the limit from being exceeded. The normal time period between quota synchronizations is a tunable parameter, quota_quantum, and can be changed using the gfs2_tool command. By default, the time period is 60 seconds. Also, the quota_quantum parameter must be set on each node and each time the file system is mounted. (Changes to the quota_quantum parameter are not persistent across unmounts.)
You can use the gfs2_quota sync command to synchronize the quota information from a node to the on-disk quota file between the automatic updates performed by GFS2.
Synchronizing Quota Information
gfs2_quota sync -f MountPoint
MountPoint
Specifies the GFS2 file system to which the actions apply.
Tuning the Time Between Synchronizations
gfs2_tool settune MountPoint quota_quantum Seconds
MountPoint
Specifies the GFS2 file system to which the actions apply.
Seconds
Specifies the new time period between regular quota-file synchronizations by GFS2. Smaller values may increase contention and slow down performance.
This example synchronizes the quota information from the node it is run on to file system /mygfs2.
gfs2_quota sync -f /mygfs2
This example changes the default time period between regular quota-file updates to one hour (3600 seconds) for file system /mygfs2 on a single node.
gfs2_tool settune /mygfs2 quota_quantum 3600
