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| -rw-r--r-- | docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml index 1855574776..900c90f215 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml @@ -9,10 +9,14 @@ 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. When you work with large files like - >100MB or so you may even run into problems with clients running into - timeouts.</para> + terminology this means that Samba will stop creating sparse files.</para> + + <para>This option is really desgined for file systems that support + fast allocation of large numbers of blocks such as extent-based file systems. + On file systems that don't support extents (most notably ext3) this can + make Samba slower. When you work with large files over >100MB on file + systems without extents 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 |