quotas not functioning.

[Ariel Mella]

Jeremy:
then this is the reason... i was using the 2.4.9-13 kernel from redhat (alan
cox).. the i switch to 2.4.16 (from linus)...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Allison" <jra at samba.org>
To: "Ariel Mella" <samba at nebula-sa.com.ar>
Cc: <samba-technical at samba.org>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: quotas not functioning.


> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:18:27AM -0300, Ariel Mella wrote:
> > when im using samba 2.2.2 ofcial release quotas function well.
> > after a upgrade to the samba 2_2 cvs branch quotas stop working..
> > i have a mount /home
> > i have a directory for each user inside /home
> > and the quotas  (of my linux system) are for the /home device
(/dev/hdbx).
> > i log onto a win9x workstation and when i check for the share of the
user
> > (under /home/%U) i see a total size of 500 MB (thats right) but when i
> > create copy etc. files the used size never growth... alwais is 8kb....
if i
> > check with quota -u "user" i see that in the linux system the quotas are
> > handled well...
> > any idea???
>
> Which version of Linux ? Quota support is broken on Linus kernel
> systems, Alan Cox kernel systems have working quotas code.
>
> Jeremy.
>