The parameter 'allocation roundup size' was introduced in Samba backin 2005. Since then the world has moved on to SMB2 and SMB3. It is notclear whether this has any performance benefits these days. Also withSamba in Scale, the only effect is that the reported allocation sizeis rounded up, but the
Hi Everyone,
Through some research, i found it's a normal behavior related to Samba
"allocation roundup size" , since CES SMB is based on Samba that explains
the behavior. (Windows assumes that the default size for a block is 1M).
As such, i found somewhere else that changing this parameter can
Hi,
We are contacting you regarding a behavior observed for our customer gpfs
smb shares. When we try to view the file/folder properties, the values
reported are significantly different from the folder/size and the
folder/file size on disk.
We tried to reproduce with creating a simple text file
