[Samba] Query if pre-allocation can be turned off from Windows Server / PC to SAMBA share

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 09:07:08AM +1100, Michael Crean wrote:
> Morning All
> We have an older transcode application that uses watch folders. it checks in every 10 seconds to watch folder. if it sees a new file, it will monitor it to see when it will stop growing and 30 seconds later pick it up for transcoding / encoding. Design was to have uploads to watch folder from PC and MACs. I wanted to know if there was a way to turn off pre-allocation when copying from a Windows PC to a samba share? I sense it cannot as Windows Explorer seems to default to pre-allocation before copying.  We are running RHEL  2.6.32, SAMBA 4.1.14 and GPFS as the filesystem.
> We have performed tests using NFS and by default it grows files. I know the protocols are different. 
> I sense this is a windows problem and not samba and just need to rule it out.
> creany 

Try setting "strict allocate = false". Might do the trick.