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authorJelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>2004-04-07 10:15:11 +0000
committerGerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org>2008-04-23 08:45:43 -0500
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+<samba:parameter name="strict sync"
+ context="S"
+ type="boolean"
+ xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common">
+ <description>
+ <para>Many Windows applications (including the Windows 98 explorer
+ shell) seem to confuse flushing buffer contents to disk with doing
+ a sync to disk. Under UNIX, a sync call forces the process to be
+ suspended until the kernel has ensured that all outstanding data in
+ kernel disk buffers has been safely stored onto stable storage.
+ This is very slow and should only be done rarely. Setting this
+ parameter to <constant>no</constant> (the default) means that
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> ignores the Windows
+ applications requests for a sync call. There is only a possibility
+ of losing data if the operating system itself that Samba is running
+ on crashes, so there is little danger in this default setting. In
+ addition, this fixes many performance problems that people have
+ reported with the new Windows98 explorer shell file copies.</para>
+</description>
+
+<related>sync always</related>
+<value type="default">no</value>
+</samba:parameter>