More on quotas

[Maulik Desai]

I think a similar problem was reported by someone last year too. See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba-technical&m=94993770621415&w=2

-Maulik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim McDonough [mailto:jmcd at us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 10:13 AM
> To: samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject: More on quotas
> 
> 
> An interesting bit about quotas...and this is with samba quota support
> enabled on 2.2
> 
> Trying to do a copy that exceeds the quota on Win98 behaves this way
> (netmon trace greatly simplified):
> 
> Find the old file
> See if the new file exists
> open the old file
> create the new file
> while not finished {
>   read the old file
>   write the new file : breaks on hard error 39
> }
> close the old file
> close the new file
> delete the new file
> 
> So the client takes care of deleting the old file when the 
> "disk filled
> up".
> 
> 
> On Win2K and NT:
> Find the old file
> See if the new file exists
> open the old file
> create the new file
> set the new file size (transact2 set file info)
> while not finished {
>   read the old file
>   write the new file : breaks on hard error 39
> }
> close the old file
> close the new file
> 
> NT and 2K do not take care of deleting the old file.  If the 
> server is NT
> instead of samba, it issues a zero-byte write at the end of 
> the file to
> test if there is enough room.  This fails, and then it uses a 
> trans2 set
> file info to cause a delete on close.
> 
> So while the patch I submitted isn't complete or correct, it 
> does point out
> a problem with quota support.  The same result happens from 
> an NT/2k client
> whether or not samba quota support is built.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
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