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author | Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> | 2004-04-07 10:15:11 +0000 |
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committer | Gerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org> | 2008-04-23 08:45:43 -0500 |
commit | 992f1e6b8f86b346fddd266b04d29cde69585633 (patch) | |
tree | 878573999a6831aa14cd6b8072263eb5d5910aa4 /docs/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml | |
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Add all the source files from the old CVS tree,
add the 5 missing chapters from the HOWTO
and add jht's Samba by Example book.
(This used to be commit 9fb5bcb93e57c5162b3ee6f9c7d777dc0269d100)
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diff --git a/docs/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml b/docs/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d1ffdf63a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +<samba:parameter name="strict allocate" + context="S" + type="boolean" + xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common"> +<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> |