[Samba] inotify error and a file opened 1000+ times on a Samba share

Walter Mautner retlaw.rentuam at gmail.com
Thu Mar 4 02:24:36 MST 2010


Am Donnerstag, 4. März 2010 03:53:57 schrieb Jonathan Bennett:
> After hours of searching, I found a fix.  Adding "posix locking = no" to
> that share in smb.conf fixed the problem.  I'm not sure exactly what was
> happening, but everything seems to work with that clause in place.
> 
Since the "ldb" files are lock files used by the database program to manage 
locking by itself, turning off samba locking on database shares is the obvious 
fix - but you should make a distinct share for databases, because other files on 
the same share might end up corrupted that way.


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