[Samba] NFS quotas: truncated files without warning

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:23:49PM +0200, SER.RI-TIC - David Losada wrote:
> mmm... well, it doesn't seem to be working like that in the version that
> ships with RHEL4. I will get around to try it on a fresh build on monday
> and report to you about it.
> 
> However, I can imagine it would result in quite a big performance hit
> all around. If the 'syncy' behaviour could be restricted to the "set
> allocation size" call, maybe that would be a little bit less painful ;)
> 
> Pity about linux NFS client semantics, it was working nice in Solaris.
> Maybe should nag the kernel mantainer for this code ;)
> 
> Right, looking at performance, we should be serving SMB from the NAS
> appliances. Will need to look again at the possibilities these
> appliances offer.

More data on the exact call being made (debug level 10) would help.

Any write call should go through sync_file() before returning
success .... ah - we're not checking the error return from
this ! Doh ! Ok, I'll fix that.

Jeremy.