On 2025-05-24 07:06, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:> On Thu, 22 May 2025 12:11:46 -0300 > Andreas Hasenack via samba<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> this is a somewhat unique setup (I think), where an NFS share is >> mounted on a samba server, and re-exported by samba. The NFS server >> has quotas enabled on the exported filesystem.Speaking as an amateur sysadmin of a succession of small-office/home-office Network-Attached Storage (SOHO NAS) servers, a file system which is shared via multiple protocols (Samba, NFS, AFP) does not strike me as a unique setup at all. The FreeNAS,? QNAP, and NSLU2 servers I have operated facilitated this very structure.> The big problem here, in my opinion, is that it is generally accepted > that sharing an NFS mount with Samba is a very bad idea, all sorts of > things go wrong.I believe you that things can go wrong; I have experienced it[1][2]. However, the "generally accepted" knowledge certainly hasn't reached me, and I suspect not the amateur sysadmins operating SOHO NAS products. If it is generally accepted knowledge, there should be a discoverable place for it in the Samba documentation and/or wiki. Independent of Hasenack's question, I have a desire to submit changes to the Samba documentation and/or wiki to talk about sharing backend data over multiple file-serving protocols, and about symbolic link support, etc. My current obstacle is that I can't figure out the right place for such information to go. My next step is to start a separate samba list thread about this. Best regards, ?Jim DeLaHunt [1] "Are org.netatalk.Metadata xattrs ever valid on client-side macOS files?" <https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/discussions/2000> [2] "[Samba] Can a macOS (Posix) client see symlinks on FreeBSD server as symlinks on client?" <https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2025-January/250659.html> -- . --Jim DeLaHunt,jdlh at jdlh.com http://blog.jdlh.com/ (http://jdlh.com/) multilingual websites consultant, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Rowland Penny
2025-May-24 20:09 UTC
[Samba] weird interaction with NFS quota-enabled mount
On Sat, 24 May 2025 11:59:36 -0700 Jim DeLaHunt via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> On 2025-05-24 07:06, Rowland Penny via samba wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 May 2025 12:11:46 -0300 > > Andreas Hasenack via samba<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> this is a somewhat unique setup (I think), where an NFS share is > >> mounted on a samba server, and re-exported by samba. The NFS server > >> has quotas enabled on the exported filesystem. > Speaking as an amateur sysadmin of a succession of > small-office/home-office Network-Attached Storage (SOHO NAS) servers, > a file system which is shared via multiple protocols (Samba, NFS, > AFP) does not strike me as a unique setup at all. The FreeNAS,? QNAP, > and NSLU2 servers I have operated facilitated this very structure. > > The big problem here, in my opinion, is that it is generally > > accepted that sharing an NFS mount with Samba is a very bad idea, > > all sorts of things go wrong.There is a difference here, on a NAS the same data is available via several different methods, this is very different from mounting an NFS export from one machine on another machine and then re-exporting it again with Samba, the latter is a very bad idea. Rowland
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