On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:40:41PM -0400, Scott Sipe wrote: > > Hi, > > At work we're running some rather old accounting software that tells > us to disable oplocks and all caheing on our file server (and our > clients)--Samba/FreeBSD isn't officially supported (the only > platforms that are are Windows Server and Novell--yes, it's old) but > we've been running fine on this configuration. > > The software is sensitive to data caching issues etc, and corruption > is occasionally an issue. > > I have all oplocks disabled for the share in samba, and at the moment > I have softupdates disabled on the accounting software mount. > > My question is, does activating softupdates add any risk of data > loss? My guess is no, but I've wanted to play it safe. Our other > samba shares all have softupdates enabled and do fine, and speed is > becoming somewhat of an issue.
No there's no risk of data loss. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
