On Tuesday 03 May 2005 17:18 Luca Ferrari's cat walking on the keyboard
wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got two linux machines with the same distribution and samba 3 that
> cross-mounts a share (i.e., machine a mounts a share of machine b and vice
> versa). I'm experiencing slow access from the machines to the opposite
> mounted share and I don't know what this slow performance can be due
to.
> I'm not running with oplocks cause the share is accessed only by the
other
> linux machine (no windows clients) and oplocks produced a few problems with
> my database indexes (dataflex) in the past. Thus oplocks and level2oplocks
> are disabled. The following is a part of my configuration file:
>
> [DATA]
> comment = database
> path = /vol1/sys/
> writable = yes
> browsable = no
> available = yes
> public = yes
> printable = no
> guest ok = yes
> copy = lock_template
> guest account = smb_guest
> read raw = yes
>
> where the lock_template is the following:
>
> [lock_template]
> locking = no
> posix locking = yes
> oplocks = no
> level2 oplocks = no
>
>
> As you can see I've tried also read raw, but I didn't see any
difference.
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
I'm still having problems of speed in cross-mounting, and I've tried to
place
the host names in the /etc/hosts file and in the lmhost file, but I cannot
see valuable changes. Any idea?
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Luca Ferrari,
fluca1978@infinito.it