[linux-cifs-client] smbclient 8 times faster than cifs

[Gorazd Golob]

Your kernel does not support forcedirectio option. Try new kernel from
cifs kernel tree..

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> More data. Still using 2.6.9_1.6_FC2 stock Fedora Core 2 kernel. I mounted
> this time like this:
>
> mount //bigiron/BigBackup /mnt/Backup -t cifs -o
> user=ken,password=xxxx,forcedirectio,wsize=65536,rsize=65536
>
> A regular cp still takes a long time, but dd looks good:
>
> time dd if=/home/ken/tmp/DesertCombat_0.7_Full_Install.exe
> of=/mnt/Backup/test bs=65536
> 9460+1 records in
> 9460+1 records out
>
> real    1m3.014s
> user    0m0.079s
> sys     0m12.475s
>
>
> Alas, dump with 1 MByte transfers requested is still only getting 530 kB/s.
> So it looks like it's back in dump's court.
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