[Samba] Quota problem (soft=hardlimit?)

[Andrew Bartlett]

Peter Griessl wrote:
> 
> > > When logging out from Windows 2000 and writing the user profiles back to the
> > > server the user gets a "disk full" warning - below soft and hardlimit.
> > >
> > > Tests showed that the warning comes up when
> > >
> > >         Userfiles + (2 * Profiles) > soft limit.
> > >
> > > In all our tests, the grace period and the hardlimit were never reached and
> > > are not the limiting factors.
> > >
> > > I read about Windows 2000 duplicating the profiles before writing back
> > > to the server, therefore (2 * Profiles). Ok, we can live with that.
> > > But treating the soft limit like hard limit is not fair, I think.
> > >
> 
> >
> > Samba does not enforce quotas, only reports back what the OS tell us.
> > Try and do a similar operation on the server only, and see what
> > happens.  It might be that the 'space free' that Samba reports is
> > causing problems, as that is set to the soft quota.
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
> >
> 
> Thanks for your message,
> meanwhile I did some testing:
> 
> - copying files on the server only (as you suggested) works fine: softlimit,
>   grace period, hard limit work as expected
> - copying files via the Windows 2000 Explorer on network disks works also:
>   softlimit, grace period, hard limit work as expected
> - the problem shows up *only* during logout when the user's profiles are
>   written back to the server
> 
> strange

Now what we need to know is how Win2k deals with this.  They have quotas
too, and I think they have soft/hard limits as well.  It would be
interesting to see if they have the same problem.

Andrew Bartlett

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