Ext4 with quotas may cause system deadlock on RHEL5.6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Using quotas on an ext4 filesystem on RHEL5.6 may result in a system deadlock.

Environment

  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.6
  • ext4 filesystem with quotas enabled

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