I then tried to use smbclient to 'get' the file, and again observed 4k SMB read requests. I found that using the '-b <buffersize>' option with smbclient is effective in REDUCING the buffer size as small as 1 byte (reflected in Ethereal showing 1 byte SMB read requests), however I am unable to use '-b' to increase the read requests beyond 4k.
Why does smbmount/smbclient only read data at 4k per block? This results in horribly poor performance (~4 MBytes/sec) on a gigabit network that should permit transfer rates that challenge the speed of the disk drives involved...
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