[Samba] samba file locking

[Janez Kosmrlj]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Janez Kosmrlj <postnalista at googlemail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Janez Kosmrlj <
> postnalista at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Janez Kosmrlj <
>> postnalista at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Ernesto Silva <erniesilva at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>> Can you try to mount with -o directio? Not sure this will
>>>>> help, but it might be worth a try.
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>>>>> Volker
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>>>> Hi, there is also another parameter similar to directio, I don't know
>>>> the difference but seems more radical, it's "forcedirectio". I have been
>>>> using it on linux clients which mounts a samba share or a w2k share.
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>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Ernesto.
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>>> I think we tried -o, but i will check it again. I will also giwe
>>> forcedirectio a try.
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>>> Any other ideas.
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>> It looks like forcedirectio is the right way to go. I tried it with the
>> text file tests, that i mentioned before and for now it looks OK. All i have
>> to do now is to test it with real life jar files and java.
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>> I will report to this list as soon as i get any results.
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>> Hi,
> Unfortunately forcedirectio is not the solution i hoped it would be. When i
> preform the above mentioned text file test everything looks OK, but when we
> try to work with real life .jar files then we get "mmap failed for CEN and
> END part of zip file" from the Java application.
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> Is there someone with a better solution. Thanx anyway to Ernesto and Volker
> for the help.
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update.

For now it looks like fakeoplocks=yes in smb.conf is the solution. Also the
audit service on the client has to be turned off. We have to do some further
testing, but this looks like it is it for now.