[Samba] Re: Samba configuration options when using with FUSE file
system
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Fri Apr 24 07:12:30 GMT 2009
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Jim Casey wrote:
> It seems that metadata operations involved in writing new files into the
> same directory become increasingly expensive as the number of files
> grows larger. Determining whether a file exists in a directory (in our
> case this will never be true since we are always writing new files)
> seems like it should be a simple operation, but in fact seems to involve
> a huge number of opendir->readdir->closedir calls. I am using Samba to
> share a FUSE filesystem for which these directory operations are very
> expensive compared to file systems like ext3.
>
> Are there configuration options in Samba that would help us out in this
> case, perhaps by caching directory information or some such?
>
> Thank you for any assistance you are able to provide.
See my post on large numbers of files in a directory:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2005-February/039409.html
Jeremy.
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