[Samba] Samba Serving NFS Mounted Directories

[Jon Forrest]

On 1/23/2010 12:48 AM, Volker Lendecke wrote:

> You need to get over that. Running Samba on NFS imports is a
> really bad idea. At least every month people report strange
> lockups, timeouts and other weird things on this list that
> can be attributed to NFS imports.

I'm not doubting that what you say is
true, since I've seen it myself, but
whenever possible I try to get deeper
understanding of what causes these
strange problems. That's one
of the reasons why I posted my
question.

So, I'll restate the question - what is it
about NFS exports that gives Samba trouble
that doesn't occur when serving local files?

Cordially,
-- 
Jon Forrest
Research Computing Support
College of Chemistry
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University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
94720-1460
510-643-1032
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