[PATCH] docs: mention incompatibility between kernel oplocks and streams_xattr

Michael Adam obnox at samba.org
Wed Sep 10 14:55:22 MDT 2014


Hi Björn!

I am not convinced that we should reference
a bug for details in the manpage...
Can we explain this in the manpage itsef?

Cheers - Michael

On 2014-09-09 at 22:57 +0200, Björn Jacke wrote:
> See BUG https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7537 for details.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjoern Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
> ---
>  docs-xml/manpages/vfs_streams_xattr.8.xml | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_streams_xattr.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_streams_xattr.8.xml
> index 2deb802..fc646ad 100644
> --- a/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_streams_xattr.8.xml
> +++ b/docs-xml/manpages/vfs_streams_xattr.8.xml
> @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@
>  	the size of xattrs. So this module might work for applications like IE
>  	that stores small zone information in streams but will fail for
>  	applications that store serious amounts of data in ADSs.</para>
> +
> +	<para>CAUTION: Make sure to set "kernel oplocks = no" in smb.conf if
> +	if you use this module. See Bug 7537 for details.</para>
>  </refsect1>
>  
>  <refsect1>
> -- 
> 2.1.0
> 
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