On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 20:20 -0800, Michael Dykstra wrote: > How long does one have to typically wait for an answer to a post? > Tomorrow my message will have been up a week, and I've gotten no > replies. > It was about whether a file, while it was being written to, could > subsequently be opened by another client for reading. I used a DVR > with chasing play as an example. Didn't seem like that difficult of a > question, but maybe it isn't geeky enough for some. (Or perhaps the > answer is "No" and people are too embarrassed to admit Samba can't do > it.)
Or perhaps the question is naive and the answer is: "it depends". Samba supports locking, so if the application that is writing to a file locks it then you may be out of luck. >From a protocol and server point of view, however, there is absolutely no limitation on concurrent file reading/writing. Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
