zfs discuss - Jul 2008 - [cifs-discuss] Disk quotas with CIFS & ZFS

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?
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