[jcifs] Grabbing a directory and all of its subdirectories

[Chris Moesel]

If you read my previous email, you saw that I have a need for grabbing 
the entire contents of a directory tree using the SMB protocol.  You 
also saw that it takes me over 40 seconds to traverse 5400 files in 600 
subdirectories of the tree (NOTE, I don't need the actual contents of 
each file, only the information for creating a listing-- name, date, 
size, etc).

Is there a best practice for doing this recursive retrieval?  My current 
algorithm is a pretty simple recursion, but I was wondering if there was 
some switch in JCIFS for turning on recursive retrieval, or some API I 
was unaware of.

Here's a simplified version of what I'm currently doing is:

List getFilesFromDir(String path) {
    SmbFile baseDir = new SmbFile(path);
    SmbFile[] files = baseDir.listFiles();
    List results = new ArrayList();
   
    for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
        SmbFile file = files[i];
        if (file.isDirectory()) {
            results.addAll(getFilesFromPath(file.getPath()));
        } else {
            results.add(file);       
        }
    }
}

Any ideas for improving performance?  By the way, using log statements, 
I've been able to determine that of the 42 seconds it takes to make this 
call on my big directory, only 2 seconds is in my code and the remaining 
40 seconds is in the baseDir.listFiles() method.

Also, in case you're wondering, the Microsoft server I'm querying is 
about 30 miles away-- when I run the code from the campus where the 
server resides, the 42 seconds drops down to about 24 seconds (using 
version 1.1.8 in both cases-- it is less with 1.1.3).

Thanks,
Chris