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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/smbdotconf/tuning/changenotifytimeout.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/smbdotconf/tuning/changenotifytimeout.xml b/docs/smbdotconf/tuning/changenotifytimeout.xml index 37b3dc777a..c450a173d8 100644 --- a/docs/smbdotconf/tuning/changenotifytimeout.xml +++ b/docs/smbdotconf/tuning/changenotifytimeout.xml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <samba:parameter name="change notify timeout" type="integer" - context="G" + context="S" developer="1" xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> <description> @@ -10,7 +10,13 @@ a directory is expensive under UNIX, hence an <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> daemon only performs such a scan on each requested directory once every <parameter moreinfo="none">change notify - timeout</parameter> seconds.</para> + timeout</parameter> seconds. Note that in 3.0.23 this has been changed to a + per-share parameter and setting this to zero prevents any change notify directory + scans completely on a share. This is to allow this paramter to be set to zero on + shares configured for very large directories, where a Windows client will re-scan + the entire directory after every delete operation (when deleting many files) due to + the change notify triggering. This is an extremely expensive operation on some + systems.</para> </description> <value type="default">60</value> |