<samba:parameter name="strict allocate" context="S" type="boolean" xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common"> <description> <para>This is a boolean that controls the handling of disk space allocation in the server. When this is set to <constant>yes</constant> 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.</para> <para>When strict allocate is <constant>no</constant> the server does sparse disk block allocation when a file is extended.</para> <para>Setting this to <constant>yes</constant> can help Samba return out of quota messages on systems that are restricting the disk quota of users.</para> </description> <value type="default">no</value> </samba:parameter>