[OpenAFS] Windows Client, quota and filemanager - no warning!

[ted creedon]

OpenAFS 1.4.0 on all servers and clients:

With XP SP2 - with all hotfixes - error box states "Error in copying 
file or folder->Cannot copy latexdebug" (file at which the volume filled).

WIth Win 2003 SP1 - with all hotfixes-  server the copy %complete box 
just ran for 5 min after the volume was full at which time I killed it.  
I.e. the little flying file gizzy was flying but the progress bar wasn't 
moving. No observable error message.

Tedc

Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>Todd and Ted:
>
>As a test I decided to copy a 1.9 GB file by drag drop using
>XP SP2 Explorer to my home volume on athena.mit.edu.  The volume
>is not large enough to hold the file at all.
>
>File h:\ (537235559.1.1) contained in cell athena.mit.edu
>Owner jaltman (28180) Group 0
>Volume status for vid = 537235559 named user.jaltman
>Current disk quota is 1500000
>Current blocks used are 1480695
>The partition has 97596339 blocks available out of 557143478
>
>Of course, because there is no method by which free AFS partition
>and quota space can be reported on a per volume basis, Windows is
>given the following info:
>
>2,199,023,254,528 bytes total disk space
>1,099,511,627,776 bytes used
>1,099,511,626,752 bytes free
>             50 % in use
>
>This makes the explorer think that there is plenty of room when there
>is not.  Therefore it proceeds to copy the file.  As the space runs
>out, fs examine reports:
>
>File h:\ (537235559.1.1) contained in cell athena.mit.edu
>Owner jaltman (28180) Group 0
>Volume status for vid = 537235559 named user.jaltman
>Current disk quota is 1500000
>Current blocks used are 1500791
>The partition has 97572131 blocks available out of 557143478
>
>Notice that blocks used is greater than the quota.  At this point
>the AFS file server reports "VOVERQUOTA" which is properly reported
>to Windows as "DISK FULL".  The "DISK FULL" error is displayed by the
>SysInternal's File Monitor.  Explorer responds to the "DISK FULL"
>error by deleting the partial file and displaying a dialog box with the
>title "Error Copying File or Folder" and the error message:
>
>  "Cannot copy <filename>: This is not enough free space.
>  "Delete one or more files to free space, and then try again."
>
>What more do you want Windows to do?
>
>What more do you want OpenAFS to do?
>
>The environment for this test was Windows XP SP2 plus every patch from
>Windows Update and OpenAFS 1.4.1 rc4.  I only used 1.4.1 RC4 because
>that is what was on the machine.  The OpenAFS file server is 1.2.11 plus
>patches.
>
>If you are running a version of OAFW 1.3.71 or earlier I could
>believe you are seeing this problem as in those versions OAFW
>returned an Over Quota error to Windows that was not supported by
>the CIFS protocol.  In 1.3.72 this error was replaced by Disk Full
>and the problem was solved.
>
>Once again, I am going to ask, if you have evidence that there is
>a problem, please provide evidence.
>
>Jeffrey Altman
>
>