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diff --git a/docs/textdocs/Speed.txt b/docs/textdocs/Speed.txt index 73681f1ce2..b2fcd15cda 100644 --- a/docs/textdocs/Speed.txt +++ b/docs/textdocs/Speed.txt @@ -1,9 +1,6 @@ !== -!== Speed.txt for Samba release 2.1.0prealpha 981204 +!== Speed.txt for Samba release 2.0.4b 20 May 1999 !== -Contributor: Andrew Tridgell -Date: January 1995 -Status: Current Subject: Samba performance issues ============================================================================ @@ -63,6 +60,21 @@ option has been left in the code for backwards compatibility reasons but it's use is now deprecated. A short summary of what the old code did follows. +LEVEL2 OPLOCKS +-------------- + +With Samba 2.0.5 a new capability - level2 (read only) oplocks is +supported (although the option is off by default - see the smb.conf +man page for details). Turning on level2 oplocks (on a share-by-share basis) +by setting the parameter : + +level2 oplocks = true + +should speed concurrent access to files that are not commonly written +to, such as application serving shares (ie. shares that contain common +.EXE files - such as a Microsoft Office share) as it allows clients to +read-ahread cache copies of these files. + Old 'fake oplocks' option - deprecated. --------------------------------------- |