[Samba] hanging smbd(s) revisited

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Mar 1 15:40:27 GMT 2006


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Matt Johnson wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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?

No.  But if you are accessing the same file via NFS
and CIFS, you might have problems with applications
not recognizing each others locks.






jerry
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