[Samba] SMB protocol and cached data

[Ralph Boehme]

On 10/27/21 15:36, Deas, Jim via samba wrote:
> I have been warned about sharing the same mount point via SMB and NFS
> due to samba caching content and potentially corrupting data. What is
> the real story on this? If samba is not flushing content due to some
> sort of optimization, can that be switched off in the configuration?

by default smbd does not cache data. There once was an "write cache 
size" option but that was removed some time ago.

Cheers!
-slow

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Ralph Boehme, Samba Team                 https://samba.org/
SerNet Samba Team Lead      https://sernet.de/en/team-samba
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