Few technical questions

[Volker Lendecke]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 05:29:37PM +0200, Antun Horvat wrote:
> Does the Samba oplock code works? I have read a mailing list and

Yes. We have a very comprehensive oplock test suite that we
run before every checkin. Oplocks always have the problem of
potential data coherency problems when network problems
occur. So without oplocks you're always safer, regardless of
whether the server is Samba, Windows, NetApp or something
else.

> found many occurrences of corrupted MS Office files and the
> resolution of that was to disable oplock code. I find it hard to
> believe it that Samba after all those years did not manage to fix
> the oplock code, and at least write few unit tests that emulate MS
> office behavior.
> 
> What are proper socket timeout defaults? In few cases I had a small

We use the default TCP timeouts of the OS kernel. In case
you are running Linux, you might play with the TCP_KEEPCNT,
TCP_KEEPIDLE and TCP_KEEPINTVL socket options to match your
needs. See "man 7 tcp" for documentation on these options.

> network glitch which resulted in MS clients reconnect to FS server
> via new socket, but Samba for some reason for a long time kept the
> old smbd process opened and as a result a client was not able to
> open a file until I manually killed the stale smbd process. After
> that I have set the  'reset on zero vc' to yes and these issues went
> away.
> Why isn't this property by default set to yes, and why aren't socket
> options set to values that are matching Windows ones?

"reset on zero vc = yes" is dangerous for clients behind a
masquerading NAT device, that's why we don't enable it by
default.

> Is there an ability to a byte range lock via libsmbclient, since I
> would like to write a distributed test suite for Samba FS that would
> test
> oplock code and maybe finally stabilize it.

No, libsmbclient does not allow fine-grained control of
locks. If you want to dive into extending our oplock test
suite, I would recommend to download the Samba source code
and take a look at source4/torture/raw/oplock.c.

With best regards,

Volker Lendecke

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