[Samba] How important are oplocks?

[Jean-Paul ARGUDO]

> But, some times that can result in corrupted files back on the server if...

... no need to say more :-)

IMHO, this is a real good reason to disable oplocks.

I don't believe that in a production environment one could take such a 
risk. I personaly had Excel files corrupted. Had to take it back from 
backup sets. I really had to find good BOFH excuses for my users :-/

Editing the corrupted .xls file, I found that Samba loggued kind of 
samba log output in it instead putting it to /var/log/log.smbd :-)

Search for my mail on bug 26128 in this list for example and/or more info.

I really think oplocks could be is real good thing if there were no such 
risks using it :-)

Cheers,


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Jean-Paul ARGUDO