[Samba] Q: Samba Proxy or SAMBA Cluster?

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Fri Mar 9 04:57:30 GMT 2007


On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:28:57PM +1300, Jason Haar wrote:
> What about just using Samba as a front-end to a shared NFS backend? I
> know that under Linux at least Samba and NFS can both ack locks due to
> the "kernel oplocks" option.

This is exactly the same as discussed a couple of weeks ago:
Please NEVER export the same file space via different Samba
nodes, this leads to data corruption because the locks
propagated have the wrong semantics.

Volker
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