| 1 | <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>vfs_prealloc</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="vfs_prealloc.8"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>vfs_prealloc — preallocate matching files to a predetermined size</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">vfs objects = prealloc</code> </p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id263118"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This VFS module is part of the |
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| 2 | <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p>The <span><strong class="command">vfs_prealloc</strong></span> VFS module preallocates |
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| 3 | files to a specified size each time a new file is created. This |
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| 4 | is useful in environments where files are of a predetermined |
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| 5 | size will be written to a disk subsystem where extending file |
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| 6 | allocations is expensive. </p><p>This module is stackable.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id230794"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">prealloc:EXT = BYTES</span></dt><dd><p>Preallocate all files with the extension EXT to |
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| 7 | the size specified by BYTES. |
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| 8 | </p><p>The following suffixes may be applied to BYTES:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p><span><strong class="command">K</strong></span> - BYTES is a number of kilobytes</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">M</strong></span> - BYTES is a number of megabytes</p></li><li><p><span><strong class="command">G</strong></span> - BYTES is a number of gigabytes</p></li></ul></div></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id231177"></a><h2>EXAMPLES</h2><p>A process writes TIFF files to a Samba share, and the |
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| 9 | is known these files will almost always be around 4 megabytes |
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| 10 | (4194304 bytes): </p><pre class="programlisting"> |
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| 11 | <em class="parameter"><code>[frames]</code></em> |
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| 12 | <a class="indexterm" name="id231197"></a>path = /data/frames |
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| 13 | <a class="indexterm" name="id231403"></a>vfs objects = prealloc |
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| 14 | <a class="indexterm" name="id231411"></a>prealloc:tiff = 4M |
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| 15 | </pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id231420"></a><h2>CAVEATS</h2><p><span><strong class="command">vfs_prealloc</strong></span> is not supported on all |
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| 16 | platforms and filesystems. Currently only XFS filesystems on |
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| 17 | Linux and IRIX are supported. |
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| 18 | </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id231435"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0.25 of the Samba suite. |
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| 19 | </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id231445"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities |
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| 20 | were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed |
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| 21 | by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar |
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| 22 | to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p></div></div></body></html> |
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