[Samba] subdirectories have incorrect sizes

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 10:36:20AM -0800, John de la Garza wrote:
> I am using Version 3.0.28a
> 
> I have a share setup a directory on my local file system.  In that
> directory is another directory that is the mounted on a USB stick.
> 
> When using OS X I connect to there share its size is the size of the
> directory on
> the server (this is correct).  when I  change into a subfolder (actually mounted
> on usb stick with larger size), I don't see the size change.
> 
> I am limited by the size of the containing folder.
> 
> here is some system stuff:
> 
> /tmp # df -h anon_smb/
> Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> none                      4.0M    740.0K      3.3M  18% /tmp
> /tmp # df -h anon_smb/sda1/
> Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1                 3.7G     21.1M      3.7G   1% /tmp/sda1
> /tmp #
> 
> 
> /dev/sda1 on /tmp/anon_smb/sda1

We don't guarentee size consistency when crossing mount
points. Use a separate share for the mount point if you
want an exact fs size.

Jeremy.