[Samba] Samba opens many files.

[Eric Roseme]

I agree that it's a silly way to organize things, but there are many CAD 
customers serving legacy NFS design environments that are experiencing 
this issue daily.  This single problem will cause more migrations from 
Samba to Windows that any other I have seen - at least for big iron.  I 
have been trying to find ways to mitigate the effect - and certainly 
turning off mangling helps (I have seen VERYlongFILEname1234.PARTname - 
and 12,000 of these).  Also setting "case sensitive = yes" helps a 
little bit.  But we can't get past doing what appears to be multiple 
stats for each object.  Any creative suggestions are welcome.

Jeremy Allison wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:26:19PM +0100, Markus Wenke wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I have a dir with more than 16000 files in it.
>>If I klick with MS-Explorer on this Dir to see which files are in it,
>>smbd opens every file and so it takes some seconds to show this Dir!
>>(and CPU usage is at 100%).
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>>the logfile says smbd do this for every file:
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>>[2003/11/18 16:06:58, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(246)
>> USERX opened file /path/to/file.txt  read=Yes write=No (numopen=1)
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>>Is this behavior normal?
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>Yes. Explorer is reading each file for thumbnail etc. info.
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>>Can I avoid this with conf-settings?
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>No. Don't have a directory with more than 16000 files. That's a
>silly way to organise things.
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>Jeremy.
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