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| author | Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> | 2010-12-15 13:32:09 -0800 |
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| committer | Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> | 2010-12-15 14:09:48 -0800 |
| commit | ecf48af135e4c1ebc5aafe4b3dad785162f5949a (patch) | |
| tree | ff35851422bfe2959003c09a53bd008e5629c965 | |
| parent | 6bb89aaa0d38d59ce4f0d9362822ba1c525eb203 (diff) | |
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Change strict allocate to default to true. (cherry picked from commit 820ea22a07b062b1717d35de8fa7051fc1067c3f)
| -rw-r--r-- | docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | source3/param/loadparm.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml index 1855574776..9311eb6b80 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml @@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ of actually forcing the disk system to allocate real storage blocks when a file is created or extended to be a given size. In UNIX terminology this means that Samba will stop creating sparse files. - This can be slow on some systems. When you work with large files like - >100MB or so you may even run into problems with clients running into - timeouts.</para> + Modern UNIX filesystems now support extents and so in Samba 3.6.0 we + have changed this parameter to default to "yes". On older filesystems + without extents you might want to turn this parameter to "no". + </para> <para>When you have an extent based filesystem it's likely that we can make use of unwritten extents which allows Samba to allocate even large amounts @@ -28,9 +29,9 @@ preallocation is probably an expensive operation where you will see reduced performance and risk to let clients run into timeouts when creating large files. Examples are ext3, ZFS, HFS+ and most others, so be aware if you - activate this setting on those filesystems.</para> + leave the default setting on those filesystems.</para> </description> -<value type="default">no</value> +<value type="default">yes</value> </samba:parameter> diff --git a/source3/param/loadparm.c b/source3/param/loadparm.c index ced8223833..2f68f00c78 100644 --- a/source3/param/loadparm.c +++ b/source3/param/loadparm.c @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ static struct service sDefault = { false, /* bWidelinks */ True, /* bSymlinks */ False, /* bSyncAlways */ - False, /* bStrictAllocate */ + True, /* bStrictAllocate */ False, /* bStrictSync */ '~', /* magic char */ NULL, /* copymap */ |