On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Michael B. Smith
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The "blue screen" is certainly not true with
> any recent version of Windows Server.

  Well, that's good.  :)

> When it wants to update that chunk, it requests a write-lock
> on only the piece of that area it wants to update. SMB doesn't
> support a "partial row write-lock".

  Eh?  Samba implements locking of arbitrary byte ranges.  Or it did
back in 2002.  QuickBooks used them, which is how I encountered it.
You did have to disable oplocks for it to work; I dunno if that's an
SMB thing or a Samba thing.

-- Ben

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