From dc36d75d5fddaa351025e8eb8140f401b66aeb9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Metzmacher Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:11:01 +0200 Subject: Revert "Change strict allocate to default to true. This reverts commit ecf48af135e4c1ebc5aafe4b3dad785162f5949a. This makes Samba unusable on systems without Linux and a modern Filesystem. This was discussed with Jeremy on IRC: http://irclog.samba.org/2011/01/20110126-Wed.log metze Autobuild-User: Stefan Metzmacher Autobuild-Date: Mon Mar 28 09:00:09 CEST 2011 on sn-devel-104 --- docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs-xml') diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml index 9311eb6b80..1855574776 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml @@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ 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. - 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". - + 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. 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 @@ -29,9 +28,9 @@ 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 - leave the default setting on those filesystems. + activate this setting on those filesystems. -yes +no -- cgit