[Samba] strict locking and kernel oplocks in the smb.conf
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Fri Sep 30 17:44:17 MDT 2011
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 04:39:18PM -0700, Philip Ong wrote:
> No other process is accessing it. So any idea why it would work fine without
> "strict locking = no" in previous kernels below 2.6.36.3?
When "strict locking = yes" we make fcntl() locking query calls
to make sure we're safe against existing POSIX locks.
The NFS locking code is probably just broken.
Jeremy.
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