Samba & Linux SMP kernel

[Gerald Carter]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Chris Watt wrote:

> At 08:57 AM 4/13/01 -0600, Eric Sisler wrote:
>
> > Most of the problems I'm having are oplock
> >related.  Oplocks work pretty well on 1.9 but badly under 2.0.  Is my SMP
> >kernel the culprit or do I need to look elsewhere?
>
> I'm running Samba 2.0.7 on a SMP kernel 2.4.2 (although the same Samba
> installation functioned the same way when the box was running 2.2.17 a few
> months back). I do have a problem with oplocks, but I think that it is
> supposed to be a feature rather than a bug: Samba gives/respects oplocks,
> but no other server-side software is aware of them so server-side file
> changes can confuse the heck out of a workstation. This applies also to
> stuff which is shared by both NFS and Samba.


Linux 2.4 has kernel level oplocks. Should be picked up at configure
time.





CHeers, jerry