[Samba] weird interaction with NFS quota-enabled mount

[Jim DeLaHunt]

On 2025-05-24 13:09, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:

> 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.

Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, my SOHO NAS case is different. I 
misunderstood Hasenack's message.

Thank you for helping me see that.
      —Jim DeLaHunt

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