[Samba] Limit users storing BIG files

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 09:22:25PM +0530, S.Kani wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Yes, several users under one linux user's space, so it seems like there 
> is no way to control this using linux or Samba.
>
> Only possible way is to write my own custom script to monitor the folders 
> and remove BIG files?

Well, you could always write a VFS module to monitor the
ftruncate and pwrite calls. I'm not sure this gains you a
lot, users are very creative when it comes to work around
restrictions. Remember, most archivers can split the files.

Volker
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