[Samba] Samba performance issue

[rhubbell]

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 20:25 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:41:55AM -0800, rhubbell wrote:
> > > > Why do cifs and smbfs not have this capability?  Is it too much work? Is
> > > > it due to differences in the purpose of each?
> > > 
> > > It's fiddly work nobody has done yet.
> > 
> > fiddly = not hard work, but tedious and sort of annoying?
> 
> Fiddly as in not many of lines of code, but code with
> complex interactions and data dependencies. So I'd say for
> me it is hard work, others might find it easier. But as
> nobody has done it yet, I'd say I'm not completely alone in
> that assessment.


Ah, ok, understood, thanks. So it falls into the class of enhancements
under the heading "Worthy but tricky".