Changeset 740 for vendor/current/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning

Timestamp:

Nov 14, 2012, 12:59:34 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

Silvan Scherrer

Message:

Samba Server: update vendor to 3.6.0

File:

• vendor/current/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml (modified) (1 diff)

vendor/current/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/strictallocate.xml

@@ -10 +10 @@
     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 you work with large files like
-    >100MB or so you may even run into problems with clients running into
-    timeouts.</para>
+    terminology this means that Samba will stop creating sparse files.</para>
+
+    <para>This option is really desgined for file systems that support
+    fast allocation of large numbers of blocks such as extent-based file systems.
+    On file systems that don't support extents (most notably ext3) this can
+    make Samba slower. When you work with large files over >100MB on file
+    systems without extents you may even run into problems with clients
+    running into timeouts.</para>
 
     <para>When you have an extent based filesystem it's likely that we can make