[Samba] Windows XP and Samba 3.0.22 -- don't mix?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Jun 14 21:32:14 GMT 2006


On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:27:18PM -0500, Logan Shaw wrote:
> It seems to me that, in most cases (there are exceptions),
> doing a "kill -9" isn't any more harmful than the machine
> crashing or power being lost.  How resistant is smbd to the
> machine losing power?  Would the same risk exist?

They are not quite equivalent as power being lost loses
all data not flushed to disk (if a non-journaling filesystem
is being used). But the same risk is present.

Jeremy.


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