SAMBA & ISAM Databases

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:52:56AM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> Okay, so...
> 
> Based on the info Andrew provided and some of the other comments in this 
> thread, it seems that the problem is:
> 
> - Linux/Posix supports locking semantics that are different from those 
>   used by Windows.
> 
>   I knew, generally, this was a problem but I wasn't quite sure how much 
>   of a problem it was.  Seems to be bigger than I thought.  The issue here 
>   is two-fold.  First, the Linux client needs to translate locking 
>   semantics to match the needs of CIFS.  Next, the Samba server needs to 
>   translate to Posix semantics for all clients.  Ouch.

Yers, but we do this correctly. So in general there isn't a problem.
The issue is usually that the more clients you have writing into a
shared file the more critical it is the clients are stable. And mostly
Samba is serving Windows clients, so.......

:-(.

Jeremy.