quota group

David Lee t.d.lee at durham.ac.uk
Wed Mar 5 13:13:05 GMT 2003


On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> [...]
> If you can repatch this against HEAD, and check with metze (Stefan
> (metze) Metzmacher <metze at metzemix.de>) on how this might conflict with
> his work in this area.  In particular, it might work out best that metze
> picks this up into his patch.  (He is working on being able to modify
> the quota from an Windows client!).
>
> Either way, this certainly is a very nice idea!


Is this the time to bite the bullet or take the bull by the horns?
(Substitute other metaphors to taste...)

In the devel/TODO there is a suggested "coding project":

   Rewriting Samba's current filesystem quota support as a VFS module.


There has also just been another thread from someone requesting some sort
of directory-dependent result from "df"-like functionality.

Is now the time to extract the handling of "df" (default), "quota", "dfree
command" into a generalised VFS structure, reimplementing those mechanisms
in such a framework?

Or maybe this is already being addressed?

We can probably assist with testing and coding Solaris/quota, although we
can no longer help with Solaris/Veritas/quota, as we no longer have such a
server.


-- 

:  David Lee                                I.T. Service          :
:  Systems Programmer                       Computer Centre       :
:                                           University of Durham  :
:  http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/            South Road            :
:                                           Durham                :
:  Phone: +44 191 374 2882                  U.K.                  :


More information about the samba-technical mailing list