[Samba] Re: Samba corrupting files

[Brent Torrenga]

Chris,

I am about to implement a MS Access2000 database here on the samba server.
Was it MS Access that you had the trouble with specifically?

"Chris de Vidal" <cdevidal at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:20030226173715.27431.qmail at web40513.mail.yahoo.com...
> --- "Parker, Robin" <robin.parker at nectech.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > We're now getting corrupt files appearing in
> > ClearCase.  The files are in
> > tact except for a number of lines added to the
> > beggining of the file.
>
> I can't explain that type of corruption, but I can
> suggest you disable all oplocks.  In your smb.conf
> global section, 'kernel oplocks = No', and on each
> share specify 'oplocks = No' and 'level2 oplocks =
> No'.
>
> I'm not a member of the Samba team but a Linux
> administrator whose primary responsibility is several
> Samba servers.  We had corruption on several large
> flat database files.  When we disabled all oplocks,
> our databases no longer corrupted.
>
> I've not been able to test which oplock setting of the
> three was causing this problem (or if it was all
> three) so I suggest you try disabling them all at once
> and then gradually re-enabling them one at a time.  If
> that doesn't fix it, be sure to set them back, as
> oplocks are a performance boost.
>
> Good luck,
> /dev/idal
>
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