Faster Samba (SMB / CIFS) Share PerformanceIs your Samba slow? Samba file sharing is great, but performance under Samba’s default configuration is fairly poor. Here are a few options that I add to my smb.conf to get the speed that I need: [global] # FORCE THE DISK SYSTEM TO ALLOCATE REAL STORAGE BLOCKS WHEN # A FILE IS CREATED OR EXTENDED TO BE A GIVEN SIZE. # THIS IS ONLY A GOOD OPTION FOR FILE SYSTEMS THAT SUPPORT # UNWRITTEN EXTENTS LIK
