[Samba] Samba opens many files.

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Markus Wenke wrote:

| If I change "case sensitive" to yes, this problem is
| fixed, but if I  make in the windows-C-file a simple
| _findfirst() the same behavior appears.
| If I makt it to a Dir with 2 files, every file will be
| opened at least  one time. Why opens samba this files? for
| only _findfirst() the files  musn't be opened or?
| and if I make a tcpdump, I see that windows(the client)
| doesn't ask to open this files, there are only <50 packets
| for 16000 files.

Windows clients expect case insensitive semantics.  So smbd
has to scan the directory to implement that.  If you have
a case insensitive file system, then smbd wouldn't need to
do this for you.


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