[Samba] 3.6/SMB2.0 and NT6.0 (Vista/W2K8 not-R2) question

[starlight at binnacle.cx]

At 11:41 AM 8/23/2011 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:27:19PM -0400, starlight at binnacle.cx wrote:
>> >From the MS documentation, it appears there might be some
>> oplock support in their SMB 2.0 client.  Is this the case?
>> Any chance that oplock-based caching of files that are
>> only read will happen on the Windows side if we install
>> Samba 3.6 and enable SMB2?
>
>oplocks are supported in MS's default SMB1 client.
>You don't need SMB2 for that. The Windows client should
>already be using oplocks.

But apparently not with sufficient aggression.  No
doubt whatsoever that files are being read over
and over again--clear as day in the network
statistics.  I'll guess that Windows is dropping
the cached copy of network files immediately once
the are closed.

So it's really a question about the Windows client
side, which makes me think that SMB2 vs SMB1 will
make little difference for the NT6.0 kernel.  The
MS announcement does focus on improvements in
the NT6.1 kernel with SMB2.1, so I'll have to
try that at some point.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff383236%28WS.10%29.aspx

Thank you for your reply.