Jeremy, Thank you very much for the back reference. Your solution works like a charm.
-- James Casey On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 00:12 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Jim Casey wrote: > > It seems that metadata operations involved in writing new files into the > > same directory become increasingly expensive as the number of files > > grows larger. Determining whether a file exists in a directory (in our > > case this will never be true since we are always writing new files) > > seems like it should be a simple operation, but in fact seems to involve > > a huge number of opendir->readdir->closedir calls. I am using Samba to > > share a FUSE filesystem for which these directory operations are very > > expensive compared to file systems like ext3. > > > > Are there configuration options in Samba that would help us out in this > > case, perhaps by caching directory information or some such? > > > > Thank you for any assistance you are able to provide. > > See my post on large numbers of files in a directory: > > http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2005-February/039409.html > > Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba