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| -rw-r--r-- | docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml index 1855574776..9311eb6b80 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml @@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ 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> + 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> <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 @@ -28,9 +29,9 @@ 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 - activate this setting on those filesystems.</para> + leave the default setting on those filesystems.</para> </description> -<value type="default">no</value> +<value type="default">yes</value> </samba:parameter> |