[Samba] Windows 2K outperform Linux/Samba very much?

[Jacky Kim]

>> Sorry, I miss the follow informations:
>> 1. There are 100,000 files in shared directory.
>
>That's the problem. Because Samba has to present a case insensitive
>view of a case-sensitive filesystem we have to scan the entire
>directory to ensure a file doesn't exist.
>
>The answer to the "why is Samba slow" question in this case is
>"don't do that" (put 100,000 files in a directory).

I trid 20,000 files in a directory too, and found the same result:
Windows's share is about 10 times faster than Linux/samba's one 
when get small file's property(NOT content).

Jacky Kim
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