[Fwd: Samba servers and Mac Finder - minimum file size 1Mb]

[James Peach]

On 19 July 2010 18:45, Christopher R. Hertel <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> wrote:
> Quick question (for the Apple folk, primarily):  If the message copied below
> is correct, the Macintosh Finder reports the allocated rather than the
> actual size of files on an SMB share.  Is that intentional?

Yes.

> Just curious.

Supposedly it's because when floppy disks were 800k and block sizes
were 4k it was hard to see where all your disk space went. If you do a
cmd-i on the file the info windo will show you both the allocated size
and the data size.

>
> The message is from one of the administrator mailing lists at the University
> at which I used to work.
>
> Chris -)-----
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Samba servers and Mac Finder - minimum file size 1Mb
> Date:    Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:49:26 -0500
>
> One of my users noticed that the Mac OS X finder was reporting a minimum
> file size of 1Mb for files on Samba share.
>
> After some searching, I found that the Samba server has an "allocation
> roundup size" parameter that controls the file allocation reported to
> clients.
>
> The default 1Mb block size was chosen by Samba to improve performance of
> Windows clients. Setting this value to zero in the smb.conf makes file
> sizes be reported much more accurately!
>
>
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