[Samba] Oplocks question

Daniel Bourque dbourque at weatherdata.com
Tue Jun 9 15:48:53 GMT 2009


I've had hit and miss problems with locks on sharing NFS mounted SMB 
shares. Works good with some NFS servers, not well wither others.

I was told in this list that it's not a supported samba config, so I 
gave up trying to reliably use them.

Dan



Terry Haley wrote:
> What have people found with oplocks in the realm of really saving 
> time? Is it something that's always good to have in an environment 
> where two files being accessed simultaneously is rare? My shared 
> volume is an NFS on a remote server. Just curious what folks have 
> experienced.
>
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