removing false oplocks

[Jeremy Allison]

hugo wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am using samba 2.2 and I had to stop samba (with a script that uses
> kill -15) and restart it. However, I found that several false oplocks
> were left behind (during the restart not all people logged out of their
> applications on windows machines that were using files on the unix nfs
> filesystem).
> 
> I could find no way to remove these false oplocks at all under samba
> 2.2.  The samba locks directory contains database files (extension .tdb)
> and I could not find a way of getting the false oplocks out of them.
> 
> The only way I could get rid of the false oplocks was for everybody to
> logout, the restart samba once more.
> 
> Surely there must be a better way than that to remove stale (false)
> oplocks in samba 2.2?
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this?

This was fixed in Samba 2.2.1a. Please upgrade. smbd now
cleans this db on startup and shutdown.

Jeremy.

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