Re: OpenBSD 6.3 mount_smbfs missing ?!

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2018-04-24, Daniel Santos  wrote:
> I could not find mount_smbfs in the base OS anymore, no packages like 
> it?

Not just any more, it was never there.

> What is currently the recommended samba share mount tool for OpenBSD?

If you have applications that can use it, gvfs-smb is probably the best option.
Otherwise you're stuck with usmb (or smbclient).

OpenBSD 6.3 mount_smbfs missing ?!

[Daniel Santos]

Hello,

I could not find mount_smbfs in the base OS anymore, no packages like 
it?


What is currently the recommended samba share mount tool for OpenBSD?

I have tried usmb, it works but slow:

time dd bs=1M count=1000 if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/smb/big
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes transferred in 56.149 secs (18674606 bytes/sec)

real0m56.405s
user0m0.010s
sys 0m4.810s

While direct disk write on the samba server which is Debian Wheezy:

time dd if=/dev/zero of=big2 bs=1M count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1.07052 s, 980 MB/s

real0m1.073s
user0m0.000s
sys 0m1.068s

Takes like 1 second, I have repeated the test couple of times and come 
up with the same numbers that it is almost 60x times slower to write out 
a file through samba.