On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:36:23PM -0500, David Noriega wrote:
> So then Samba isn't Lustre-aware in the sense it checks and respects quotas?

Not exactly. If quotas are enabled on the backend filesystem, samba clients can 
consult quota information and even change quota settings through the samba 
quota interface (see smbcquotas). The samba server then forwards the quota 
query to the underlying filesystem.
On linux, the samba server uses the standard quotactl(2) API to interact with 
the backend filesystem, but unfortunately, this API is not supported by lustre 
which has its own interface for quota management (i.e. llapi_quotactl(3)).

However, it seems that the samba server can be told to use an external program 
instead of the quotactl API. See the "get quota command" and "set quota 
command" sections from the smb.conf man page. Hence, we could address the 
problem by implementing some easy wrappers on top of the lfs quota commands.

HTH

Cheers,
Johann
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