No other process is accessing it. So any idea why it would work fine without "strict locking = no" in previous kernels below 2.6.36.3?
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Allison [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 03:09 PM Pacific Standard Time To: Philip Ong Cc: 'Jeremy Allison'; '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [Samba] strict locking and kernel oplocks in the smb.conf On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:48:52AM -0700, Philip Ong wrote: > > Hope this helps. > [Philip Ong] Thanks, yes, it does. I'm having a problem with being able to > copy a local > Windows file to NFS area shared by samba on WinXP. If I set "strict locking = > no", I'm > able to copy the file to the NFS area shared via samba. This seems to only > happen when > upgrading from a kernel.org kernel of 2.6.36.3 and higher. I've tried on > Centos 4.5 and > 5.6 and all seems to point to either kernel or samba mix (3.5.11 and 3.6). > I'd like to > know the damage setting "strict locking = no" could possibly cause especially > since I'm > not sure if I'd want to ignore mandatory locks. Is this going to be a big > problem? What > are considered mandatory locks? Actually you probably do want to ignore mandatory locks :-). Is there another process accessing this file at the same time ? If there is, and that process has taken a POSIX/NFS lock out on the file, then "strict locking = yes" will conflict. More likely it's just an NFS bug in the locking code though :-). Jeremy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
