[Samba] weird interaction with NFS quota-enabled mount

[Rowland Penny]

On Sat, 24 May 2025 11:59:36 -0700
Jim DeLaHunt via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 2025-05-24 07:06, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 22 May 2025 12:11:46 -0300
> > Andreas Hasenack via samba<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> this is a somewhat unique setup (I think), where an NFS share is
> >> mounted on a samba server, and re-exported by samba. The NFS server
> >> has quotas enabled on the exported filesystem.
> Speaking as an amateur sysadmin of a succession of 
> small-office/home-office Network-Attached Storage (SOHO NAS) servers,
> a file system which is shared via multiple protocols (Samba, NFS,
> AFP) does not strike me as a unique setup at all. The FreeNAS,  QNAP,
> and NSLU2 servers I have operated facilitated this very structure.
> > The big problem here, in my opinion, is that it is generally
> > accepted that sharing an NFS mount with Samba is a very bad idea,
> > all sorts of things go wrong.

There is a difference here, on a NAS the same data is available via
several different methods, this is very different from mounting an NFS
export from one machine on another machine and then re-exporting it
again with Samba, the latter is a very bad idea.

Rowland