Subject: Re: Disk quota problems
From: Keith Clarke (keithc@dcs.qmw.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 04:44:44 EDT
>I have version pre-asun2.1.4-39 installed on a Solaris 2.6 box. It does not
>seem to handle disk quotas correctly.
>
>If a user is over quota and they use finder to try and navigate around their
>home volume - such as one would do to locate files to delete - everything
>"disappears". The files are really still on the server, logging out and in
>again makes them appear - until trying to go into another folder or look at a
>file. If a user clicks on a folder within home, a new finder window quickly
>appears, you can catch a glimpse of the files and folders, then it blanks out
>and stays blank.
>
>Anyone have any ideas? I'm told this can happen when a user is very near
>quota as well. This is making access to our common file system quite difficult
>for our mac users.
>
Is it possible that these users have created files in their home
volume using other OSs on your common file system?
Netatalk will, by default, try to create directories (.AppleDouble)
to store resource forks and other information whenever you browse
into a directory created under Unix or Samba. I guess that if you're
over quota it can't make these directories and then you're in trouble.
There's an runtime option ( noappledouble ) to make the creation of
these directories lazy - that is, deferred until it's needed to
actually store something. Here we tried adding this line to the
AppleVolumes.system file -
/export61/temp_atalk_test "Atalk Test" codepage=maccode.iso8859-1
options=noadouble access=keithc,tom,simon
but then had problems uploading files which had MacOS 'comment'
fields in them. This was with 1.4b2+asun2.1.3 on Debian linux - this
version is quite old - installed from a debian package & I can't put
my finger on the "preXX" part of the version number - you may have
more luck with something newer. Or I may have done something else
wrong :(
regards
Keith Clarke
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