diff options
| author | Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org> | 2011-03-28 08:11:01 +0200 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org> | 2011-03-28 09:00:09 +0200 |
| commit | dc36d75d5fddaa351025e8eb8140f401b66aeb9d (patch) | |
| tree | f0e0a6920d223c56dfbf2a2073a2031a47fe49a8 /docs-xml | |
| parent | a414356075ab28259fe4fe534478bc43aa3ce6d9 (diff) | |
| download | samba-dc36d75d5fddaa351025e8eb8140f401b66aeb9d.tar.gz samba-dc36d75d5fddaa351025e8eb8140f401b66aeb9d.tar.bz2 samba-dc36d75d5fddaa351025e8eb8140f401b66aeb9d.zip | |
Revert "Change strict allocate to default to true.
This reverts commit ecf48af135e4c1ebc5aafe4b3dad785162f5949a.
This makes Samba unusable on systems without Linux and
a modern Filesystem.
This was discussed with Jeremy on IRC:
http://irclog.samba.org/2011/01/20110126-Wed.log
metze
Autobuild-User: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date: Mon Mar 28 09:00:09 CEST 2011 on sn-devel-104
Diffstat (limited to 'docs-xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml index 9311eb6b80..1855574776 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml @@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ 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. - 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> + 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> <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 @@ -29,9 +28,9 @@ 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 - leave the default setting on those filesystems.</para> + activate this setting on those filesystems.</para> </description> -<value type="default">yes</value> +<value type="default">no</value> </samba:parameter> |