oplocks and file caching

[Ralph Blach]

Hi,

I am using AIX 4.1.5 and found the following problem with oplocks.


On an AIX 4.1.5 system I created the file

xx

with the contents

(0000)

Do a ls -l on the file
-rw-r--r--   1 rcblach  rtp403         7 Jan 29 11:09 xx

on a win95 sytem with the file mapped on my F:

type xx
(0000)

do a dir on the file
dir xx

Volume in drive F is RCBLACH
 Directory of F:\

xx                       7  01-29-98 11:09a xx
xx       bck        16,401  01-29-98 10:31a xx.bck
         2 file(s)         16,408 bytes
         0 dir(s)     597,344,256 bytes free

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now on the AIX sytem change the file xx to
(0000 )

and do an ls on the file
-rw-r--r--   1 rcblach  rtp403         8 Jan 29 11:12 xx

now on the win95 system do a dir of the file

Volume in drive F is RCBLACH
 Directory of F:\

xx                       8  01-29-98 11:12a xx
xx       bck        16,401  01-29-98 10:31a xx.bck

NOW type the file and the results are
type xx
(0000)


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HMMMMMM, the correct length is reported, but the old cached version of
the file is present.
Now heres the very intersting point.  If I edit the file, the correct
version is retrieved.

there edit xx
shows (0000 )

To overcome this I have set

oplocks =False

in the smb.conf file.

Any comments??? is this a bug???

Chip Blach