plan for a feature: fsync for assuring file size

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Fri Oct 26 13:49:21 GMT 2007


On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 02:30:11PM +0200, SER.RI-TIC - David Losada wrote:
> About locking, if I understood correctly.. Samba internally manages
> locks for its clients. So, given a set of files, as long as they are
> accessed _just_ by the samba server's processes, the locking with this
> set of files should be OK.

As long as only one samba server is accessing a set of
files, this is correct. If you have multiple servers handing
out the same files, you need clustered samba. See
http://ctdb.samba.org/

Volker
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