Slowdown when copying large files (PR#8617)

[peloy at ven.ra.rockwell.com]

Andrew Tridgell <samba-bugs at samba.anu.edu.au> wrote:

> The Windows98 explorer (and possibly other programs) incorrectly set the
> "sync" bit in write requests to network shares. This causes an enormous
> slowdown as Samba (quite correctly) does a fsync() on the file after each
> write. Combine this with the fact that Windows98 explorer uses very small
> write sizes (around 1.5k) and you get really terrible results.

Andrew, but if it is Windows 98 the one that is screwing things up,
wouldn't this slowdown be seen when the server is something else, like
Windows 95/NT, etc.?

peloy.-