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authorJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>2010-12-15 13:32:09 -0800
committerJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>2010-12-15 14:09:48 -0800
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Change strict allocate to default to true. (cherry picked from commit 820ea22a07b062b1717d35de8fa7051fc1067c3f)
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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>