[Samba] samba quotas

[Rohit Kumar Mehta]

Thanks the dfree solution calling a perl script works for us.  I am 
concerned
that there may be performance issues with this however.

We are considering something like a spamc/spamd type solution where a perl
daemon that always runs that listens for a connection from
a lightweight c program (which can be referenced from smb.conf). 

I am sure there are better solutions than this too, but a solution that
we can implement quickly is always good :)

Rohit


Tilo Lutz wrote:

>Hi
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>>Hi guys, we need to update our samba service from 2.2.8a to samba 3.0.x 
>>(so that we
>>can upgrade our AD from Win2k to Win2k3).  The problem I am having is 
>>with the quotas.
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>I was never able to use the quota functions of samba. I use
>Suse 8.2 with Samba 3.0.3 and XFS. Even the latest samba version
>doesn't recognize quotas correctly. For me quota code is broken
>since beginning in samba.
>
>To get them displayed I use a dirty hack.
>In smb.conf I've added the following line:
>dfree command = "/etc/script.sh %U"
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>script.sh:
>#!/bin/sh
>used_space=`/usr/bin/quota -u $1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $2}'`
>quota_space=`/usr/bin/quota -u $1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $4}'`
>used_files=`/usr/bin/quota -u $1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}'`
>quota_files=`/usr/bin/quota -u $1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $7}'`
>if [ "$used_files" == "$quota_files" ];
>    then used_space=$quota_space
>    fi
>free_space=`expr $quota_space - $used_space`
>echo "$quota_space $free_space"
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>Tilo
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