Can I have oplocks enabled without problems?

[Bill Moran]

Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:46:03PM -0400, All-Ireland Racing/Guinness Cycling Team wrote:
> > Windows 95 has bugs in the oplock code. I'm not sure if Windows 98 continues
> > that fine tradition or not, but from what you're saying it sure seems to. If
> > you have any 95 machines on your network, turn off oplocks. The same may be
> > the case for 98. You'll simply have to deal with the performance hit.
> >
> I haven't worked with Access files, but I haven't had trouble with win98 and
> locking.

Access files are the best example I can think of to test oplock
stability (especially if they're being accessed by many users
simultaneously) They'd also benefit greatly in performance from a
working oplock implementation.

> I wonder what NT does in this situation.  Detect bad_locking/win95?

Don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me. It also wouldn't surprise me if
it just breaks things the same way Samba does. That would be why using
.mdb files across a network has such a bad reputation (speculation here
...)

-Bill