[Samba] OpLock+flat DB corruption (Was: How Samba let us down)
Bradley W. Langhorst
brad at langhorst.com
Thu Oct 24 13:23:00 GMT 2002
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 07:43, Chris de Vidal wrote:
> --- jra at dp.samba.org wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:25:56AM -0700, Jay Ts
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > The corruption might be related to oplocks. I'm
> > doing
> >
> > File corruption is treated as a drop everything -
> > priority
> > 1 bug in Samba. If this were a generic problem known
> > with
> > 2.2.6 we'd be issuing a patch *immediately*.
>
> OpLocks were indeed causing corruption; we only turned
> them off, made no other changes, and have no more
> corruption, as I reported yesterday. Wouldn't that be
> a priority 1, "drop everything" bug? Other experience
> was confirmed by doing a Google, by 2 Samba authors,
> and by the results of our one simple change.
the oplock problem with access databases is well known...
I don't think samba alone can fix it.
(somebody prove me wrong :)
brad
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