We have now applied the Enterprise Rollup and enabled SMB2 again, so I will see how it goes.
Thanks Chris. -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 11 March 2015 09:51 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Index Corruption / SMB I have never needed to go near any disk write caching settings since Windows 95/98 days. YMMV. There is also file lock caching to do with SMB. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, at 09:11 AM, Allen wrote: > Does this mean that write ahead cache on the disk drive can be safely > left on? And is this win 7 and 8 or just servers? > Al > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Crozier > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 9:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Index Corruption / SMB > > +1 for Alan's comment. SMB3 seems to have cured all the cache problems > inherent with SMB1/SMB2 > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan > Bourke > Sent: 10 March 2015 14:52 > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Index Corruption / SMB > > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, at 02:32 PM, Man-wai Chang wrote: > > In addition to un-necessary caching, you also need to disable > > opportunistic locking (oplocks) in Samba. > > > No, you don't. Leave the caching alone. it's there for a reason. If > you're having to mess with caching on a regular basis, you need to be > looking at your program code. > > You *can't* turn off OpLocks under SMB2 and SMB3. You have to knock > everything back to SMB1 and then turn off OpLocks which to me is both > unnecessary and a bad idea. > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

