Todd Lyons wrote:
> Ben Reser wrote on Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:32:44AM -0700 :
> 
>>On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 03:10:37PM +0200, Claudio wrote:
>>
> To expand on this, quotas *DO* work for ext3.  They can be set and the
> kernel enforces them.  However, users cannot see their own quota.
> That's a result of the "move policy out of the kernel" notion.  It
> *enforces* policy, but it is not used to *make* policy.  The XFS code
> however does both.
> 
> As root, you can view users' quota, but as a user, you cannot view your
> own using ext3.  In XFS, it works like it used to.
> 
> If need be, I can repost (or send to the original poster offlist) a very
> long detailed message about quotas on the current kernel.  Stew has
> taken a very detailed look into quota and the quotactl() function as
> implemented in the kernel and we understand what it's doing and why the
> limitation exists.

I would assume then that samba (using the kernel interfaces?) would only 
be able to show the free disk space on a share as the remaining quota on 
  XFS then (and not ext2/3)? (I haven't had a chance to test yet ...)

Buchan

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