This is true, but it's possible to configure samba to cooperate nicely
with it's native file system. I'm not at work at the moment so I can't
check my files, but I think that rummaging around the docs on pessimistic
locking gets you close to the issues. I'm currently running samba/tomcat
on a RH6.2 box with more or less vanilla smb.conf, and it works perfectly.
The only time I had to reconfigure sambas locking settings (on a different
box) was when I needed a Unix program to detect write-locks held by a
samba client.
Kevin
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Ryan wrote:
>
> > Even so.. I've still had to 'touch' half the time. Though I access my JSP
> > code through windows via samba. Dunno if that has anything to do with it.
> >
>
> Yes, it absolutely does.
>
> Network file systems often cache directory information about the files you
> access, in order to avoid lots of network traffic. Thus, a file can be
> changed on the Samba server (with an updated timestamp), and the Samba
> client (i.e. the machine Tomcat is running on) does not know that.
>
> IMHO, running your webapps via a network file system (Windows shared
> disks, Samba, Unix NFS, etc.) is not a good idea. You'd be much better
> off (and have much better performance) if you moved Tomcat to where the
> files are located, rather than the other way around.
