[Samba] OpLock+flat DB corruption (Was: How Samba let us down)

[Trey Nolen]

> > OpLocks were indeed causing corruption; we only turned
> > them off, made no other changes, and have no more
> > corruption, as I reported yesterday.  Wouldn't that be
> > a priority 1, "drop everything" bug?  Other experience
> > was confirmed by doing a Google, by 2 Samba authors,
> > and by the results of our one simple change.
> the oplock problem  with access databases is well known...

> I don't think samba alone can fix it.
> (somebody prove me wrong :)


Just curious....If it is not a problem with "samba alone,"  what is causing
it? Is it a problem with the kernel, the filesystem? Where does the other
work (besides Samba) need to be done?

Trey Nolen