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author | Gerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2008-04-22 10:09:40 -0500 |
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committer | Gerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2008-04-23 08:47:48 -0500 |
commit | 8f8a9f01909ba29e2b781310baeeaaddc3f15f0d (patch) | |
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Moving docs tree to docs-xml to make room for generated docs in the release tarball.
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diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2606f2028b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +<samba:parameter name="strict allocate" + context="S" + type="boolean" + xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> +<description> + <para>This is a boolean that controls the handling of + disk space allocation in the server. When this is set to <constant>yes</constant> + the server will change from UNIX behaviour of not committing real + disk storage blocks when a file is extended to the Windows behaviour + 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.</para> + + <para>When strict allocate is <constant>no</constant> the server does sparse + disk block allocation when a file is extended.</para> + + <para>Setting this to <constant>yes</constant> can help Samba return + out of quota messages on systems that are restricting the disk quota + of users.</para> +</description> + +<value type="default">no</value> +</samba:parameter> |