[Samba] Can I mount an NFS volume and re-export via SAMBA?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon May 5 23:03:49 GMT 2008


On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 08:59:25AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> Not just oplocks (which must be turned off, because they can't be
> forwarded by NFS to the source server, so risk parallel writers), but
> other byte range locks, if you where expecting these to be honoured back
> to the source NFS server.

Actually, byte range locks should work over NFS. That's not to say
they *do*, but there's an extension to the core protocol that supports
them (although not all NFS servers support it).

Jeremy.


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