Bug 15971 - Ability add API to fallocate space in remote repository
Summary: Ability add API to fallocate space in remote repository
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Samba 4.1 and newer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: libsmbclient (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Samba QA Contact
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
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Reported: 2026-01-16 01:11 UTC by Marco Trevisan
Modified: 2026-01-16 01:11 UTC (History)
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Description Marco Trevisan 2026-01-16 01:11:17 UTC 
As far I've seen in the CIFS implementation for samba, has a proper implementation of fallocate, and in fact - at least in the linux over linux case, file allocation works nicely (I had not tested this with a windows server but I assume it's working too).

Now, no API is exposed in libsmbclient and it would be nice to have it

In fact, it could be used (once Bug 11413 is fixed) to do some parallel writings on pre-allocated data.