summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/docs/smbdotconf/tuning/usesendfile.xml
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>2004-09-03 17:43:31 +0000
committerGerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org>2008-04-23 08:46:00 -0500
commit4128635e51d571ab69c1dbcded5dfbd79948a6e5 (patch)
tree6bf9b9b4dc4edd70829a9cd50f18af37be2992d5 /docs/smbdotconf/tuning/usesendfile.xml
parent9d90023ff4c28fc6d12e02cb89e2653d6c06bd95 (diff)
downloadsamba-4128635e51d571ab69c1dbcded5dfbd79948a6e5.tar.gz
samba-4128635e51d571ab69c1dbcded5dfbd79948a6e5.tar.bz2
samba-4128635e51d571ab69c1dbcded5dfbd79948a6e5.zip
Updated with sepcifics of how we determine sendfile.
Jeremy. (This used to be commit db41fa6b4183163e10a92c89245580626879a84a)
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/smbdotconf/tuning/usesendfile.xml')
-rw-r--r--docs/smbdotconf/tuning/usesendfile.xml4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/smbdotconf/tuning/usesendfile.xml b/docs/smbdotconf/tuning/usesendfile.xml
index 8c26fa2a52..0fa3340abc 100644
--- a/docs/smbdotconf/tuning/usesendfile.xml
+++ b/docs/smbdotconf/tuning/usesendfile.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
<para>If this parameter is <constant>yes</constant>, and the <constant>sendfile()</constant> system call is supported by the underlying operating system, then some SMB read calls (mainly ReadAndX
and ReadRaw) will use the more efficient sendfile system call for files that
are exclusively oplocked. This may make more efficient use of the system CPU's
- and cause Samba to be faster.
+ and cause Samba to be faster. Samba automatically turns this off for clients
+ that use protocol levels lower than NT LM 0.12 and when it detects a client is
+ Windows 9x (using sendfile from Linux will cause these clients to fail).
</para>
</description>