[Samba] Performance issue on AIX when deleting files in a directory with a large number of files

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:55:04PM -0400, Claus Lund wrote:
> > Ok, so it isn't the change notify effect James suspected....
> > 
> > You are using the canonicalized case settings and "case sensitive"
> > settings needed for large directories aren't you.... ?
> > 
> 
> I tried changing the settings per this HOWTO:
> http://mirrors.uol.com.br/pub/samba/HOWTO/Samba-LargeDirectory-HOWTO
> 
> Using:
>         case sensitive = True
>         default case = lower
>         preserve case = no
>         short preserve case = no
> 
> on my big share and it did not make any difference.

Did you canonicalize all the filenames in there to lower case 
after making these changes ?

Jeremy.