Re: samba VFS Quota or Quota tool
Then how about repartition the whole volume in small chunks? That way you
> will limiting the available space by the partition size, and this cannot
> be avoided, can be easily monitored, you will have more control over the
> resources permission...
but i am using RAID 1, and if i divide the partition in few or many chunks it means i am creating more RAID 1 drives, is it practical ? i mean i never tried that , according to you experience what you say?
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:13:13 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>>> To setup quotas in samba you basically need setup two things:
>>>
>>> - Enabling quotas for the mount point that holds the stored data (which
>>> usually means installing "quota" and "quota tool" packages).
>>>
>>> - Enabling samba quotas by configuring the corresponding samba VFS
>>> module.
>>>
>>> (there are many guides and information on how to setup these two things
>>> on the Internet...)
>>
>> did you mean that in order to apply quota i have to implement it in
>> samba config file and on mount point also. only applying quota on mount
>> point will not work, is that what you mean?
>
> If you want to control the available space from windows clients you have
> to enable the corresponding VFS module in samba, which is just editing a
> couple of samba configuration lines, nothing more.
>
>> can you please guide me to some proper step by step example?
>
> Nope, sorry. That information can be found easily over Internet ;-)
>
>>> Another thing you do is discarding the use of quotas in the samba share
>>> and monitor the available disk space in the linux volume, warning the
>>> admin when the disk capacity reaches a defined percentage of use.
>>>
>>>
>> no i can not do that. actually i am the admin and network engineer at
>> the same time i am a one man army doing everything :P anyways. our users
>> are very irresponsible i know they will dump their personal data to
>> their personal folder they think personal folder on fileserver means
>> storage for any thing ;) so better telling and teaching every one quota
>> is a best solution in my case
>
> Then how about repartition the whole volume in small chunks? That way you
> will limiting the available space by the partition size, and this cannot
> be avoided, can be easily monitored, you will have more control over the
> resources permission...
>
>>> But designing and defining a good policy for samba to fit your network
>>> requirements is not a simple task and requires high doses of trial and
>>> error tests, fighting with users and permissions before you can put it
>>> under production.
>>
>> thanks for sharing you experience, but i was reading an article the guy
>> was suggesting to use a virtual file system image. so that how big you
>> create the file your quota will be limited to that image size no matter
>> whoever is accessing that share. but definitely this is a work around.
>> any suggestion on that?
>
> Mmm... yes, I also have read something like that in some articles and
> forum threads but I'd be very hesitant to try it in my own systems (I
> value my data) and given that is not the usual case for using a samba
> share, should I wanted to explore that option to be implemented in my
> network I would first run some tests with unimportant data on the share
> and over a virtualmchine to see how it behaves. Sorry, I can't give you
> more feedback on this, I have never tried it, but you can do your own
> tests :-)
>
> Greetings,
>
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> Camaleón
>
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