On 1/22/2010 5:00 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
First of all, you really don't want to re-export NFS mounts via Samba.
I can't argue with this since I've felt the pain. However, I still can't say that I understand its fundamental cause. Here's my current understanding. Assuming that network bandwidth isn't an issue, which it isn't in my case, then, the "lockups, timeouts, and other weird things" that occur must be because related to how Samba emulates Windows' locking behavior on top of NFS mounts, which have their own locking semantics. Although I'd be the first to admit that what I'm doing isn't very common, and probably doesn't deserve much, if any, attention from the Samba developers, I think that this should work - at least it should work better than it currently does.
Secondly, if you absolutely must do it, I recommend the following settings:
[global] # your other options here... oplocks = No level2 oplocks = No On certain shares, you may want to set: posix locking = No
These settings seem to do the trick. I sincerely appreciate the comments that I received on this issue. I hope bring this up helps other people facing this problem, if any. Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforr...@berkeley.edu -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba