[Samba] extending files slow on FAT filesystems

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Mattias Rönnblom wrote:

> When copying large files from my Windows XP machine 
> to this share, smbd seem to "reserve" (by using ftruncate())
> the space needed on the USB disk before actually doing
> any copying. This ftruncate() operation takes quite
> a while when the file is large. It may even cause the
> client to time out.
...
> Would you consider this a problem in Samba or in 
> the VFAT filesystem driver?

IIRC our stance is that it's a problem with the
VFAT driver.  This issue has some up before.



cheers, jerry
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