There's not much that CIFS can do as far as user quotas go without filesystem support. I've CC'ed zfs-discuss, somebody there might be able to provide you something useful.
Afshin Ross wrote: > Not sure if this is the best place to ask about this. I know ZFS doesn't > have user quotas, but is there any chance something like this could be added > to CIFS? > > I'm trying to work out if ZFS is suitable for storing our users home folders > on a windows network, without adding extra management overhead if possible. > With Samba on ZFS I believe it's possible to fire off a script to auto-create > users home file systems. I've not tested it myself, but the theory sounds > fine. > > I don't believe there is anything equivalent with ZFS and the Solaris CIFS > server though. Windows can create folders automatically for user profiles, > but that's about all. What I'd like is to be able to use ZFS and CIFS as the > main storage for our windows network in as seamless a way as possible. > > I think there are really two possible routes to take, neither of which are > available yet: > > a) Automatically create filesystems for each user. This would involve > trapping the call windows makes to create a directory for the user profile > and creating a filesystem instead. > > b) Allow per user quotas in ZFS / CIFS. > > I've no idea how hard this would be, does anybody else think this would be a > good thing to have? > -- > This messages posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > cifs-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
