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<samba:parameter xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common">
		<term><anchor id="BLOCKSIZE"/>block size (S)</term>
		<listitem><para>This parameter controls the behavior of <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
		<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> when reporting disk free 
		sizes. By default, this reports a disk block size of 1024 bytes.
		</para>        
		
		<para>Changing this parameter may have some effect on the
		efficiency of client writes, this is not yet confirmed. This
		parameter was added to allow advanced administrators to change
		it (usually to a higher value) and test the effect it has on
		client write performance without re-compiling the code. As this
		is an experimental option it may be removed in a future release.
		</para>

		<para>Changing this option does not change the disk free reporting
		size, just the block size unit reported to the client.</para>
		</listitem>
		</samba:parameter>