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After migrating a client's file server from Windows to a FreeBSD samba share, they have noticed some files when opened are not prompting other users to open the file in "Read-Only" mode. The additional users can just open the file with read+write permissions.

This should not be!

Searching the internet gives a handful or results, often met with Microsoft's "Run these powershell commands blindly and you'll be sorted" support method - which are basically no help at all.

Having recently switched my daily driver computers to Alpine Linux, and the performance and computing enjoyment gains being fantastic, I have found the performance on some applications, Zola specifically, can be quite drasticly poor. Here's what I did to solve it. (It's a very simple solution)

Even when GPT (GUID Partition Table, not the slop thing) didn't exist, I never thought I'd need to deal with and handle the limit of a 2 terabyte partition size on an MBR/DOS formatted disk, it just seems such a huge size it would never be a factor. But, here we are, in 2026, and I have had to deal with this exact issue.