[Samba] Quota Question

[David Losada]

Nice for you then :) maybe it had something to do with XFS and sparse
files, then.

Here we are in the process of patching, building and testing..

cheers,

En/na Mike Alborn ha escrit:
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. I'd actually stumbled across the thread
> earlier this morning, and it got me thinking about "strict allocate"
>
> As soon as I set "strict allocate = yes", Windows began reporting "not
> enough space" instead of "disk full". Also, looking at the properties of
> a share now shows the total and free space remaining under a user's
> quota, rather than the actual space of the share.
>
> So I'd say that takes care of it for me, and without rebuilding my Samba
> packages.
>
> On Mon, 2007-18-06 at 11:54 +0200, SER.RI-TIC - David Losada wrote:
>   
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> maybe your first problem is the same problem we are fighting with here.
>> See the "NFS quotas: truncated files without warning" thread. The
>> problem we are having happens because the kernel generates the quota
>> error _not_ while writing the file, but when _closing_ it. Samba
>> correctly propagates the error, but windows clients ignore it at that
>> moment.
>>
>> In the thread there's a patch that might be useful for you.
>>
>> kind regards,
>>
>> En/na Mike Alborn ha escrit:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have several Samba servers running on Linux (Debian Etch) machines
>>> using 2.6.18 kernel.
>>>
>>> The Samba shares are all on an XFS filesystem, with user and group quota
>>> support. I have three problems/questions:
>>>
>>> 1. When a user hits their quota limit, they get a "disk full" error.
>>>
>>> 2. When a user checks the free space of the share, they see the space on
>>> the entire share, rather than the space left under their quota.
>>>
>>> 3. Windows doesn't seem to acknowledge the soft limit at all.
>>>
>>> Only the first item is really a problem (the "disk full" error), as it
>>> is a source of confusion, both for the user and for the helpdesk.
>>>
>>> Isn't Samba supposed to return a "quota exceeded" message when the user
>>> has exceeded their quota? If so, why doensn't it?
>>>
>>> I am able to see and set quotas through the Quota tab in Windows, and
>>> 'smbd -b' shows "WITH_QUOTAS", so I assume the package is compiled with
>>> quota support.
>>>
>>>   
>>>