Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:57:00 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Scott Sipe <cscotts@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softupdates Question Message-ID: <20050714145700.GA1716@Alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <873519D3-D4D3-4858-9908-72CD0F2D875E@mindspring.com> References: <873519D3-D4D3-4858-9908-72CD0F2D875E@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:40:41PM -0400, Scott Sipe wrote: > > Hi, > > At work we're running some rather old accounting software that tells > us to disable oplocks and all caheing on our file server (and our > clients)--Samba/FreeBSD isn't officially supported (the only > platforms that are are Windows Server and Novell--yes, it's old) but > we've been running fine on this configuration. > > The software is sensitive to data caching issues etc, and corruption > is occasionally an issue. > > I have all oplocks disabled for the share in samba, and at the moment > I have softupdates disabled on the accounting software mount. > > My question is, does activating softupdates add any risk of data > loss? My guess is no, but I've wanted to play it safe. Our other > samba shares all have softupdates enabled and do fine, and speed is > becoming somewhat of an issue. No there's no risk of data loss.
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