BigSmoke » du http://blog.bigsmoke.us Smokes your problems, coughs fresh air. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:03:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Samba rounds filesizes off to whole MB’s http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2009/10/20/samba-rounds-filesizes-off-to-whole-mbs http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2009/10/20/samba-rounds-filesizes-off-to-whole-mbs#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:07:09 +0000 halfgaar http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=857 I noticed when I did ‘du -hs’ on a sambamount, I got a disk usage that was unrealistically high. I did some research, and it appears that Samba rounds off file sizes to whole MB units, to optimize for windows clients:

And btw, why is samba rounding the minimum size up to 1MB ?

An optimisation for Windows clients. If we do this they allocate actually run faster against a Samba server (based on tests done by a NAS vendor).

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