[Samba] SOLVED - Oplocks not taking place at all unless fake oplocks = yes

[Chris Wagner]

The only thing that might clash is a backup agent running on the server, which would be only reading the files.  That should be OK, right?

- Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jra at samba.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 5:31 PM
To: Chris Wagner
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] SOLVED - Oplocks not taking place at all unless
fake oplocks = yes


On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 05:21:16PM -0700, Chris Wagner wrote:
> The kernel on my server appears to be refusing oplocks altogether.  Setting 'kernel oplocks = no' resolved the issue.  Is there any caveats I should be aware of?

If Linux processes (other than smbd) try and access
the files at the same time as Samba then without
kernel oplocks they may clash. If you don't have
simultaneous data access (ie. all client access is
via Samba) then there's nothing to worry about.

Jeremy.