Samba and Quota (Linux)

[Frank van Maarseveen]

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 02:02:23AM +1000, Celso Kopp Webber wrote:
> Whenever a Windows client tries to
> write a file that goes beyond his/her hard limit quota, the file seems to be
> created with the correct size, but it gets truncated on the server's
> filesystem.
Unless there's no error code this is not a bug. When a file is opened, seeked
far beyond EOF and a few bytes are written then the file appears to be big
according to ls -l but in reality contains so called phantom blocks: it
is a sparse file. So, size may disagree with the actual number of disk blocks
involved.

> 
> I have also another situation here concerning quotas: every client maps its
> home directory to a single server. But some users have their home dir on an
> NFS mounted directory. Although a "quota -u login" reports his quota
> correctly on the NFS server, Samba does report the whole NFS mounted file
> system size and user space.
So "quota -u login" on the NFS client reports the wrong number when NFS
mounted fs are involved? then the bug is either in quota or in rpc.quotad
on the server.

-- 
Frank