Name

strict allocate = boolean

Synopsis

Allowable values: YES, NO

Default: NO

If set to YES, allocates all disk blocks when creating or extending the size of files, instead of using the normal sparse file allocation used on Unix. This slows the server, but results in behavior that matches that of Windows and helps Samba correctly report “out of quota” messages.

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