On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Andy Sy wrote:
..
> Can't seem to get any Google results for
> 
> "speculative locking Samba", "speculative locking SMB"
> 
> or even "speculative locking NFS"
> 
> What exactly is 'speculative locking' in the context of
> Samba?

i would like to generalize my original statement more to "SMB handles file
locking as well as caching in a better/more robust way than NFS versions
prior to v4"

speculative locking is also called "opportunistic locking" by microsoft. 
you can look that up.  :)


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