[Samba] FoxPro/lock troubles with samba 2.2.2/.3a

[Pablo Alcaraz]

You know, if you do not have problems, do not repair it ;-)

We have *huge* foxpro databases. They are accessed with 16bits, 32bits 
and dos applications and they are accessed for 10-15 users in the same 
time. The users do a lot of modifications in the data. I think is not a 
common escenario.

The speed problem is happen with 2.2.2 and 2.2.3a versions.


Jason Barker wrote:

>Ouch, I haven't heard anything about these FoxPro corruption problems, been
>away from the mailing list for 3-4 weeks.
>
>I am very interested in the outcome of this, I am managing a Samba 2.2.3a
>server for the company I work for, and so far we have had no problems. I set
>the server up back in January with 2.2.2 and upgraded to 2.2.3a, and once I
>had everything setup how we wanted it, a lot of stuff was moved on to it,
>including the company's bugs database which uses FoxPro. So far, there have
>been no problems, and no one has noticed any corruption, but after hearing
>about these problems, I am going to see about doing a more thourough check.
>
>It sounds like Jeremy is pretty sure he has fixed the problem, and I
>certainly hope so. I took a quick look around the CVS through CVSweb and
>noticed that you made changes to locking.c to fix this problem. I am
>thinking about upgrading Samba 2.2.3a on the server to a version that has
>this fix, and was wondering, would you recommend I download the latest
>SAMBA_2_2 from CVS. Or can you tell me what files for this fix to grab (if
>there are more than just locking.c) and then recompile 2.2.3a with them. I
>only ask because I want to keep any new problems that could be created by
>the latest CVS code to a minimum, since 2.2.3a seems to be working fine for
>us. But at the same time would like to kill this problem before it has a
>chance to bite us.
>
>Also, is there some place to get Gerald's test program?
>
>Oh, and Pablo, did you encounter the speed problems AFTER upgrading to the
>Samba CVS version?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>-Jason B.
>