smbfs fsx'ed
Quoted 3 lines · Linus Torvalds
Btw, Urban, is anybody working on trying to do "{read|write}page()" asynchronously? I assume that IO performance on smbfs must be quite horrible with totally synchronous IO..
I use smbfs to mount a visual sourcesafe database, and run ss via wine. The combination is very slow. Don't know how much of it is wine, and how much is smbfs, but any speedup would be greatly appreciated.
(Eventually, wine will bundle its own smb code, but for now if you want to access network shares, smbfs is the only way.)
- Dan
Quoted 4 lines · Dan Kegel
I use smbfs to mount a visual sourcesafe database, and run ss via wine. The combination is very slow. Don't know how much of it is wine, and how much is smbfs, but any speedup would be greatly appreciated.
SS is really painful on a high latency connection, CVS is a wonder of efficiency in comparison. At least that is my experience. But that is probably not your setup.
(and yes, I understood that you compared with windows performance)
You may want to know that smbfs does not do any file locking. I don't know if SS depends on that or not. I do know that some people have tried running dos based database programs in dosemu accessing a database over smbfs with database corruption as a result.
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(Eventually, wine will bundle its own smb code, but for now if you want to access network shares, smbfs is the only way.)
- Dan
Very nice. The commandline SS client would never work for me under wine. I'll have to try that again.
/Urban