[Lustre-discuss] Strange messages from samba

David Noriega tsk133 at my.utsa.edu
Tue Oct 5 12:36:23 PDT 2010


So then Samba isn't Lustre-aware in the sense it checks and respects quotas?

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Johann Lombardi
<johann.lombardi at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:09:21PM -0500, David Noriega wrote:
>> Moved our samba server to use Lustre as its backend file system and
>> things look like they are working, but I'm seeing the following
>> message repeat over and over
>>
>> [2010/10/04 11:09:40, 0] lib/sysquotas.c:sys_get_quota(421)
>>  sys_path_to_bdev() failed for path [.]!
> [...]
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> A quick google search shows that others - who don't export a lustre fs - get the same error message, so i would recommend to try the samba mailing list instead.
> That being said, if samba tries to access quota information through standard quotactl(2) calls, it cannot work since Lustre has its own quota administrative interface (see llapi_quotactl(3)).
>
> HTH
>
> Cheers,
> Johann
>



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