[Samba] extending files slow on FAT filesystems

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:18:31PM +0200, Mattias Rönnblom wrote:
> 
> I know. But it is possible (conceptually, at least) to work around
> this issue in the clients. Whence my (slightly off-topic) question
> about changing Windows XP SMB client behavior.

It's almost impossible to get clients to change their behaviour.
That's one of our major challenges :-).

Jeremy.