Just to close this off, when using Samba with ZFS it seems to be very important (if you have many files in a directory) to make it case sensitive as per: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Performance_tuning#Handling_Large_Directories.
Everything is now roses and works as expected. Sorry ZFS that I accused you! ;) Thanks again! // Albert On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Albert Cervin <alb...@acervin.com> wrote: > Hi again, > > I have conducted a few other experiments and concluded that ZFS is NOT > the culprit here and my suspicions now go to Samba instead which seems > to behave really badly under these conditions... > > Thanks for all the ZFS help though, much appreciated! > > Cheers, > Albert > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Gerrit Kühn <gerrit.ku...@aei.mpg.de> wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:06:38 +0000 krad <kra...@gmail.com> wrote about Re: >> ZFS - poor performance with "large" directories: >> >> K> consumer SSDs are cheap enough now not to bother with usb drives I would >> K> imagine. >> >> Sure. I was just suggesting a USB drive as a quick way to check if this >> might help at all. Most people have USB drives lying around, and they can >> simply be plugged into any computer. A SSD (cheap or not) more likely >> needs to be bought first, and the server box might need to be opened to >> have it installed. >> >> >> cu >> Gerrit >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
