Is this true!! Can somebody please shed some light on it Max Kipness wrote:
> > > > > 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > 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 > > -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
