Any chance to make Samba pass full path into external dfree instead of ./?

[Alexander]

  Readdressing this to samba-technical - I think it is more appropriate (please correct me if it's not).

  Further googling brought up some similar problems dated somewhere in 2001 and 2003 (Samba returns free space only for top-level dir of the share) and, what's more interesting - some Samba developers said that "this is a good point" - but probably it got buried over time.
  Maybe this is a time to bring it up again due to fact that Vista is coming and it explicitly asks for free space before any writing to share -> so more people will have problems with current dfree implementation. At least it will be a problem for those who use Samba for reexporting NFS links and those who have e.g. several drives mounted under the top-level dir of the share.

  BTW - smbstatus has the information I need - it has full file paths in the output and it would be enough for me (after cutting the trailing filenames) if that "several files per smbd" fact not existed.

Regards,
Alexander

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander <forsmb at mail.ru>
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:15:33 +0300
Subject: Any chance to make Samba pass full path into external dfree instead of ./?

> 
> Hi list,
> 
> At the moment I'm struggling with a problem when Samba returns 0 free space for share which is in fact a reexported NFS automount point (in fact df also returns zero here, so that's not a Samba fault, just a configuration specifics).
> One way around is usage of external dfree routine, which is mentioned in manuals. I've almost managed this config to work by developing some script which devises the full path using PID of smbd instance it is called by and smbstatus utility, but there's a fundamental problem - one smbd can have several files opened in different shares. Using my approach it is impossible to find out which share is being accessed at each particular moment.
> Therefore I'm trying other possibilities and this is one of them - can I somehow tune the sourcecode in order to get full path passed to external dfree? I've undertaken a short dig into sources and it seems to me possible, but it would be great to get an answer from Samba developers - in order for me not to waste the time just to come up to the fact it is impossible... So, any comments and suggestions on how to do that are welcome. I'm open to provide any additional details which may help.
> 
> Regards,
> Alexander
>