[Samba] Documentation / boolean fix for oplocks = command

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Jul 26 10:17:02 GMT 2002


On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, WEBSTER, Greg wrote:

> 
> Basically, when we moved the files for our rather ancient accounting
> software (Dexco) over to Samba (from Novell filesharing), it slowed to a
> crawl. Speaking to the Dexco people, they suggested it was the oplocks
> causing a problem. Once I specified 'oplocks = False' it sped up to
> (perhaps) a little faster than access to the Novell fileserver was.
> 
> No errors or anything...it just didn't work until I did that.

OK.  I'll look at it, but i'm a little skeptical that a bug of this
magitude would go unnoticed.  This is the first report of it I'm seen
(and i use yes / no exclusively in my tests servers here).









cheers, jerry
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