From 8f8a9f01909ba29e2b781310baeeaaddc3f15f0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gerald W. Carter" Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:09:40 -0500 Subject: Moving docs tree to docs-xml to make room for generated docs in the release tarball. (This used to be commit 9f672c26d63955f613088489c6efbdc08b5b2d14) --- docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml (limited to 'docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml') diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2606f2028b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ + + + This is a boolean that controls the handling of + disk space allocation in the server. When this is set to yes + the server will change from UNIX behaviour of not committing real + 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 strict allocate is no the server does sparse + disk block allocation when a file is extended. + + Setting this to yes can help Samba return + out of quota messages on systems that are restricting the disk quota + of users. + + +no + -- cgit