[luau] nfs and samba

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Mon Oct 21 23:09:00 PDT 2002


On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 11:32, burnst001 at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> I'm considering sharing a single filesystem using both nfs and samba. Most of
> the discussions I find on the web talk about using samba to re-export a filesystem
> mounted using NFS (and what a bad idea that is). I just want to have an NFS
> daemon for serving unix clients and a smbd for serving windows clients, the
> filesystem itself will be local to both daemons. Any problem here, can samba
> and NFS play nice? 
> 

I recall the Samba documentation warning about oplocks used in
conjunction with something like this.  It has something to do with data
integrity and Windows performance when using Samba mounted shares, but I
don't remember exactly.  Do the Google.
  




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