[Samba] ok, so oplocks: good or bad?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:27:24AM -0700, bkrusic at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I disabled oplocks after weeks of corrupt files during
> network renders amongst 80+ cpus using XP Pro.
> 
> Disabling oplocks fixed my corrupt file issue however
> I suspect that my choice of using XP Pro in a serious
> production env was a bad one.  I am now switching to
> 2K and have a feeling that with oplocks re enabled,
> file corruption may not occur.

Indeed - search in the archives for the post I sent with
the Microsoft hotfixes for Windows XP SP1 oplock corruption
problems.

Jeremy.