<samba:parameter name="kernel oplocks" type="boolean" context="G" xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> <description> <para>For UNIXes that support kernel based <smbconfoption name="oplocks"/> (currently only IRIX and the Linux 2.4 kernel), this parameter allows the use of them to be turned on or off.</para> <para>Kernel oplocks support allows Samba <parameter moreinfo="none">oplocks </parameter> to be broken whenever a local UNIX process or NFS operation accesses a file that <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> has oplocked. This allows complete data consistency between SMB/CIFS, NFS and local file access (and is a <emphasis>very</emphasis> cool feature :-).</para> <para>This parameter defaults to <constant>on</constant>, but is translated to a no-op on systems that no not have the necessary kernel support. You should never need to touch this parameter.</para> </description> <related>oplocks</related> <related>level2 oplocks</related> <value type="default">yes</value> </samba:parameter>