[Samba] samba 3.6.9-164 - is "kernel oplocks = no" option viable on purely Samba shared FS?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:56:06PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:40:06AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 07:33:19AM +0200, Karel Lang AFD wrote:
> > > 2 questions:
> > > 
> > > 1.
> > > In scenario, where you have purely data storage filesystem (no apps,
> > > databases anything), shared only over Samba and accessed only by
> > > windows client workstations - would it be OK to use the "kernel
> > > oplocks = no" option?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > 2.
> > > is the "kernel oplocks = no" still Global option??
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> Is that really true?
> 
> Master has
> 
> use_kernel = lp_kernel_oplocks(SNUM(fsp->conn))
> 
> which means we have per-share kernel oplocks.

Oh ! Serves me right for not checking the
code before speaking. It *used* to be global :-).

Sorry Karel, I gave you bad advice there !

Thanks for checking Volker !

Jeremy.