Corruption: SAMBA & NFS locks

[Jaco van Staden]

If I don't use oplock, will it still be a problem? I assume the standard 
system locks will be managed between NFS and SAMBA.


On Wednesday 06 December 2000 15:48, you wrote:
> Jaco van Staden wrote:
> > Now my questions are:
> > How is the locking managed between NFS and SAMBA?
> > How can I view file locks on NFS?
>
> Without kernel level oplock support (Irix 6.2.?? something
> and coming in Linux 2.4), you cannot have data consistentency
> between NFS and SMB.
>
> The bottom line is that you should not be accessing the data
> using multiple protocol simultaneously.
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> CHeers, jerry

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