Is there anything noticeably different, network-wise, about this RH box
from the others? Different network card, different subnet, etc? Can
your other *nix machines sync from this particular Win2K smb filesystem
fine? Can the problem child *nix box sync to your other *nix boxen fine?
I'm having an issue with one particular server and am hoping someone
here has dealt with this.
I'm not sure whether this is a strictly samba issue or relates to the
way rsync walks the file list.
Basically after mounting a Windows 2000 file system using and then
rsyncing the contents of this mount, it seems to take 5 - 8 hours to
complete. I've checked on the log periodically and determined that
it's
the 'building of the file list' that is taking 95% of the time. We are
only talking about 140,000 files. I do many samba shares and not of
them
have this issue. When doing a manual 'ls' command in various
directories
on the mount, I encounter no slowness or anything out of the ordinary.
The samba log doesn't give much of a clue either.
Has anybody come across this? Or does anybody have any ideas of how to
troubleshoot?
Oh, and I'm using Rsync 2.6
Max - what is the OS of the machine you're using to access the Win2K SMB
share from? I ask because the reference implementation of Samba - ie,
the ftp-alike smbclient - works just dandy under every OS I've looked
at, but the kernel implementation of smbfs under FreeBSD (and possibly
other BSDs, I'm not sure) is severely broken - it will work fine for
small operations from an interactive prompt, but if you ask it to handle
several thousand files, it slows to an absolute crawl. This is not an
rsync-samba interaction problem, it occurs even with a simple cp
/mnt/smbshare/* /home/whoever type command as well, if significant
numbers of files are involved.
Hope this helps.
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I'm actually using RedHat 9 with Samba 2.2.8a. 3.0 was giving me a
slight issue with hanging on the mount command.
I've got this same basic setup on several servers but this is the only
one giving me this issue. I have one that does 130,000 from a samba
mount that takes 8 minutes for both the 'file walk' and the actual
syncing of files.
I've tried a -vv and it doesn't show much of interest. I may try a
triple v.
Thanks,
Max
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