[Samba] Outlook .pst on a samba share; do or don't?

[Wolfram Quester]

Hello,

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:00:22PM +0200, Vizitiu, Ciprian wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > I only would like to put into consideration that
> > > I corrupted my outlook.pst file and lost a lot of
> > > messages while I had outlook open and the client lost 
> > connection due 
> > > to service maintenance on the linux server.
> > 
> > Are oplocks turned off?  See chapter 14 of the Samba-3 HOWTO 
> > collection, "File and Record Locking".  Very good reading.
> > 
> 
> So to sum it up: Outlook .psts on a samba share are ok as long as you don't
> pull the plug (but the electricity company can do that... Not all my WS have
> UPSs) so to be on the safe side disable oplocks. From smb.conf man it looks
> like it can't be done on a per file basis so I'll have to create a separate
> share. Given the sizes (300 to 800MB each, 20 users) will ext3 do or I'll
> have to resort to smth more "exotic" like JVS/RieserFS?

See man smb.conf for the "veto oplock files" parameter:

In my experience ext3 will do. I've read on this list that Reiser and xfs are good 
if you have a lot of (small) files to share.

Regards,

Wolfi