> > > > > > ahhh. no, we are not the only users on the nas, our clientservers > > should > > just turn off oplocks. it is, we make backups to the nas device and > > those > > files grow quite big. > If you are trying to save RAM on the client, and don't want to cache, > and are just using the linux cifs client for backup, you could mount > with "forcedirectio" (which turns off caching a little more easily). Hi Steve, it was that we had i/o timeouts on our cifs mounted volume while doing rsyncs to that volume. since we disabled oplock the timeouts vanished. however, I will suggest your idea to my colleague who had that problem and he might give it a go as well. thanks for your thoughts! Alex > Thanks, > Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
