Re: Max open files....

David Collier-Brown (david.collier-brown@Canada.Sun.COM)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:41:57 -0400 (EDT)

Message-Id: <199804201841.OAA00865@elsbeth.canada.sun.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:41:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Collier-Brown <david.collier-brown@Canada.Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Max open files....
To:	samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au, jallison@whistle.com

Jeremy Allison wrote:
| Well I don't want to do file idling (it ends all hope
| of oplock synchronization between Samba and nfs) and
| Andrew does :-). That's the issue really :-) :-). We
| need to make a decision one way or another as to whether
| it's a good idea or not.

Perhaps the existance of locks is a disqualification
for being idled?

And a qualifiaction for ``send a no-op'' if you ever find
a file which is both idle and still locked! Such should
be (one possible) symptom of a dead client.

--dave

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