Re: [PATCH] smb2quota.py: Userspace helper to display quota information for the Linux SMB client file system (CIFS)

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"ronnie sahlberg" <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I think it would be good to have these tools as part of the actual install.
> They are in python so they are imho much more useful to the target users
> (sysadmins) than a utility written in C.
> (I kind of regret that smbinfo is in C, it should have been python
> too:-( )

I completely agree, we could rewrite smbinfo in python.

> Maybe we just need to decide on a naming prefix for these utilities
> and then there shouldn't be
> a problem to add many small useful tools.

We can also make the C code call the python script for now (or vice
versa, while smbinfo gets rewritten).

> The nice thing with small python tools is that it is so easy to tweak
> them to specific usecases.

+100

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