[Samba] Kernel Oplocks and FC2

[Mike McMullen]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike McMullen" <mlm at loanprocessing.net>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 10:20 AM
Subject: [Samba] Kernel Oplocks and FC2


> Hi All,
> 
> I am running Samba version 3.0.7-2.FC2.
> 
> I've been noticing the following messages in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Sep 22 09:35:47 www kernel: lease broken - owner pid = 6024
> Sep 22 09:36:32 www kernel: lease broken - owner pid = 25134
> 
> I've been told that if I place "kernel oplocks = false" in my
> smb.conf file, I won't see this message any more.
> 
> However, if I do this, does it turn off file-locking all together?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Mike
> 

I found the answer to my question in the online documentation
for Samba. Short answer is no.

Mike