Linux quotas are written but not propagated
I've run into a nasty problem with disk quotas on a RedHat system and I'm running out of ideas.
The system is a stock RedHat 7.1 with all security updates installed, although the kernel has been upgraded to 2.4.19. Quotas are compiled into the kernel and the same kernel and software runs flawlessly on another server.
First problem:
When enabling quotas the system complained about missing quota.user and quota.group (vfsold format). Running quotacheck -ca created aquota.group and aquota.user (vfsv0) unless I specifically told it to use vfsold - which I did, just to get the show running.
Now quotas could be enabled but then came...
Second problem:
When doing edquota <user> and saving the new quota with ":wq" the temporary file gets written to /tmp, but it's never propagated to the quota system. I suspected that edquota might try to update aquota.user and aquota.group (vfsv0, which as fa as I understand should be default on a v2.4 kernel) and thus loose the information but even when specifying the vfsold-format with edquota nothing is propagated.
I'm at loss here guys - any ideas?
