Re: Samba 2.2.2 and XFS quotas

[John Trostel <jtrostel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I took a quick look at the patch today. There seem to be some reasonably 
large changes between quota.c in 2.2.1a & 2.2.2. I'll probably be able 
to work a bit at it but will likely be asking about for helpful hints.

Nathan Scott wrote:
> > Sylvestre Taburet and I are working on updates to samba-2.2.2 for
> > Mandrake 8.1. Since Mandrake 8.1 shipped with XFS, we would like to keep
> > working  samba/XFS/quotas.
>
> Excellent.  This really needs someone with a vested interest
> to follow it up and push the changes to the Samba folk.
>
> > In the package of samba-2.2.1a, we applied
> > the patch by Nathan Scott:
> > (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=100002981924172&w=2).
>
> Caveat - I have had one report that this patch does not work.
> As I said originally, it is a patch which shows the sort of
> changes that are needed, but it is untested as I know very
> little about Samba & how to go about testing this.
>
> > We have forwarded the patch to samba developers, but they would prefer a
> > patch against current CVS tag SAMBA_2_2.
>
> It will need to be tested and fixed first, by the sound of it.
... Snip...
> Thanks for pushing this - if some other developer out there can
> take a shot at fixing the original patch, I could certainly look
> over their new patch and cross-check the XFS quota side of things
> for them.
John M. Trostel
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