oplock_break: client failure in break - shutting down

[Robert Dahlem]

Bruce,

On Sat, 19 Dec 1998 18:14:42 +1100, Bruce Tenison wrote:

>> 	Are oplocks needed on that share?  Have you tried turning them
>> off?  If you're simply running the F-SECURE program from there, you
>> shouldn't need oplocks.
>> 
>I'm pretty sure that they're needed, since the clients don't actually run
>the software from there, but they use the share to check for updates to
>the AV files, and report back to the Administration station via the share
>on any located viruses.  Works really nice, when it works ;)
>
>Maybe I'm misunderstanding the purpose of oplocks?!?!? 

Yes. Opportunistic locks (oplocks) allow the client to agressively cache file 
contents local. When having "oplocks = false" they just dont cache file contents. 
It has nothing to do with record locking.

Hasta la vista,
               Robert

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