[Samba] Mac OS Mavericks über slow

[Roel van Meer]

Ralph Böhme writes:

> I have a working PoC here: [3]. Opening a folder with 1000 files over
> a slow link with 50 ms latency takes just a few seconds instead of 40
> seconds with just vfs_streams_xattr or vfs_fruit alone.
>
> Samba 4.2 will ship a new VFS module that addresses this:
> vfs_fruit. It stacks with vfs_streams_xattr but takes care of the
> resource fork stream itself (on Linux: by saving it to a ._
> AppleDouble file).

I can confirm that with Samba 4.2.0rc2, with vfs_streams_xattr
and vfs_fruit the time it takes to list a shared dir
with ~8000 files in it drops from 3m25s to 23s.
Tested with OSX 10.9.5.

This is great, thanks a lot!

Regards,

Roel