CIFS Oplocks - Opportunistic Locks

CIFS Oplocks - Opportunistic Locks

CIFS Oplocks

• CIFS oplocks reduce network traffic and increase the storage performance.
• Its working like caching of read-ahead, write-behind, and lock information.
• you can enable/disable CIFS oplocks for the individual volume or qtree.
• In the database application we should turn off the CIFS oplocks 
• when you handling critical data and can't afford the data loss.
• Otherwise, you can on  CIFS oplocks options.

Enabling/Disabling for entire storage 

> cifs.oplocks.enable on
> cifs.oplocks.enable off

Enabling/Disabling for qtrees qtree oplocks /vol/vol2/proj enable

> qtree oplocks /vol/vol1/qtree enable
> qtree oplocks /vol/vol1/qtree disable









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