SMB diskspace issues on the XSAN

[hydrolic11]

Greetings all --
I am having a weird issue: I have a 7TB XRAID, a PPC controller Xserve, and 2 Intel Xserve clients that host out the XRAID volumes. Everything is on 10.4. I found out where when I mount an XSAN volume via SMB, the Finder tells me I have Zero bytes available. When I mount it via AFP, the true diskspace available shows up fine.

The reason I am mounting it via SMB is because we are using the "Find" feature, which only works on SMB, not AFP. Also, I noticed that if I copy a file from XSAN to the local disk, I am able to mount the volume via SMB fine and it shows the appropriate file space. Any help would be appreciated!!

[jkufahl]

I witnessed this as well when I was setting up and kicking the tires of my xsan setup. I run a mixed platform department so running smb services is critical to me. I noticed on WinXP machines the smb mounted share points showed up just fine, but smb on apples had the same issue you posted about. When I inquired further about it I was told that this is essentially a known issue and is related to how smb was implemented with mac os x client. I was told in fact that mac os x client is NOT using true samba because the samba eula/gpl states that it cannot be repacked into a contigious OS ( or something along those lines). This does not pertain to mac os x server as that product packages smb services differently.

Long story short.. smb on mac os x client cannot read the volume correctly( perhaps if could if the volume was smaller). I got the impression that this was not something apple was particularly concerned about with 10.4.x. I can only wait for 10.5 to see if that updates the issue.

Like I said, I dont know if this is definative, but it was what I was told by some apple experts I work with.