[Samba] hanging smbd(s) revisited
Matt Johnson
mwj at doc.ic.ac.uk
Wed Mar 1 15:34:11 GMT 2006
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Fermin Molina wrote:
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>> I don't know exactly, but when I moved the information
>> from NFS servers to local storage, the problems disappeared.
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> Samba assumes posix locking semantics on the filesystem.
> NFS locking is broken. You might try setting
> 'strict locking = no'. If that doesn't work, you might
> try 'posix locking = no' just as a test.
We'll give that a shot -- we're still doing fs->nfs->samba sharing. Is
this going to incur a slowdown?
Cheers
Matt
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