[Samba] full size shown before file transfer (via samba) completes?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 06:49, _HoF_ Blaza wrote:
> I noticed this when transferring a 200mb file from my win box to my linux
> box (that has it's hd shared with samba). I typed ls -l in a term window to
> see the progress, but it was showing full size even though according to
> windows the transfer was only around 10-20%, and so on.
> 
> Why does samba do this? If I transfer with ftp, or ssh transfer, I see the
> file size growing in shell.

If you do a 'du' you should see the disk-space used.  I think windows
writes to the end of the file, to 'grow' it. Samba doesn't actually
cause unix to pre-allocate that space, which is why there is a
difference between the two sizes.

Andrew Bartlett

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