[Samba] oplocks, kernel oplocks, kernel share modes, .. - how it all works?

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri Jan 20 09:21:01 UTC 2023



On 20/01/2023 09:10, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to understand how various ways to grant a file lease to 
> (windows) clients
> works. Especially in context when files are being modified locally on 
> the linux
> filesystem.
> 

I didn't bother reading further, because you shouldn't locally modify 
files on a Samba share. This is because Samba has no way of knowing that 
said files have been modified locally.

Rowland




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