VirtualDub + GlusterFS = Unable to open file

peter_b · Post by **peter_b** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:13 pm

[PROBLEM]
Trying to open AVI files with VirtualDub over Samba over GlusterFS mountpoint returns the following error message:

"Cannot read from file "xxx.avi": The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file."

Other applications can open the file (e.g. VLC), but it seems that VirtualDub's locking behavior doesn't play well with a default GlusterFS setup.
Opening the same file directly from the GlusterFS "bricks" mountpoints over Samba, works fine.

[SOLUTION]
GlusterFS shared over Samba obviously has similar properties like sharing NFS.
The solution is to disable strict locking in Samba's global section in "/etc/samba/smb.conf"

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[global]
strict locking = no

Thanks to the thread [Samba] The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file on "fixunix.com".

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