On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On oplock vs. leases (in MS usage, oplock is the older term). An oplock was - > 1) requested on open (presumably what the "op" part of the name meant) > 2) had only a few types: "batch" (could cache data, and cache open/close) > and "read write" (could cache read or writes of data) and later a > "read only" type was > added (allowing you to cache writes) oops - I meant "allowing you to cache reads" (obviously) -- 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