Softupdates Question

[Alex de Kruijff]

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.