Negative quota usage

[Atro Tossavainen]

cc: AFS support

Jim,

> I did some initial poking around but ended up salvaging the volume which
> corrected the problem.

In fact, this was what AFS support recommended I do as well.

It fixed the problem, but the user had managed to go seriously (giga-
bytes) over quota as a result of the botch. The problem hasn't appeared
again, but I'd like to keep it that way - what's the use for quotas that
don't limit anything? Additionally, if this is something that can be
triggered reliably, not only is it a way for users to exceed their
quotas but they could also (inadvertently, or on purpose) cause DoS
conditions of all sorts.

> This happened two more times in the next few days, but I haven't seen
> the problem since.  I didn't have much time to try to figure things
> out and never reported it to IBM/Transarc.  Let me know if you end up
> reporting this and I'll inform them we had the problem as well.

I did, indeed, so please do.

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