From: Thomas Weber (l_vserver_at_mail2news.4t2.com)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 05:22:23 EDT
Hi,
Anyone looking into these problems? I'll have to put this server into
production soon and need to decide on my samba setup.
Tom
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:58:23PM +0200, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> > > > tested with 2.4.18ctx8 and 2.4.18ctx10 and samba 2.2.1a-4 on RH7.2.
> > > > Tell me if you need more information (this one is easily to reproduce).
> > >
> > > How ?? i can access files by 2 processes, how ever from the same machine
> > > without trouble. Sometimes when i write with one file, and read another
> > > file it locks up.
> >
> > Don't test with Linux as a client.
>
> Well, thats all i got, i dont use windows, i dont even have a
> windows cd, and i dont want to repartition just to install
> windows, and test this bug. I'll test with linux if people
> want that. The reason i'm not using NFS, is because it's on
> a shared network, so i want the password protection.
>
> >
> > > > any ideas?
> > >
> > > yeah, dont run samba ;-0
> > > At least not in a production environment. I'm the only user of my samba,
> > > so i can manage when i have to reboot.
> >
> > That's a joke, isn't it?
>
> Well sort of. I ment dont run samba in a vserver in a production
> environment.
>
>
> > I run samba for several hundreds of users for years without problems (of
> > course not within a vserver), it's one of the most reliable pieces of software
> > i've come across. Besides, there's just no alternative (at least none that's
> > as fast, cheap and stable).
> > I'm pretty sure this is a problem with file locking within the vserver, and not
> > a problem with samba itself.
>
> I think so as well, because i run a regular samba server as well, in a
> production
> environment, and that works fine. I seem to remember that back when i
> ran userspace
> nfs inside a vserver, i had the same lockup's, but i'm not 100% sure.
>
>
>
> JonB
>
>
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