1 <samba:parameter name="strict allocate"
4 xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
6 <para>This is a boolean that controls the handling of
7 disk space allocation in the server. When this is set to <constant>yes</constant>
8 the server will change from UNIX behaviour of not committing real
9 disk storage blocks when a file is extended to the Windows behaviour
10 of actually forcing the disk system to allocate real storage blocks
11 when a file is created or extended to be a given size. In UNIX
12 terminology this means that Samba will stop creating sparse files.
13 This can be slow on some systems.</para>
15 <para>When strict allocate is <constant>no</constant> the server does sparse
16 disk block allocation when a file is extended.</para>
18 <para>Setting this to <constant>yes</constant> can help Samba return
19 out of quota messages on systems that are restricting the disk quota
23 <value type="default">no</value>