Re: Slow smbfs...

Jari Soderholm (kernel@atmweb.ntc.nokia.com)
Fri, 8 Aug 1997 10:01:28 +0300 (EET DST)


> I've got several PC's who's drives are shared with and mounted on a Linux
> box (486dx2-66, ne2k, 12MB), and I can't get better than 130K/s and I/O
> errors (on last write I presume) with smbfs but can get > 500K/s with
> smbclient (so I know the PC's aren't the problem). Also these I/O errors
> are trouble since it can screw up a copy in the middle.

Yes , I have also seen that smbfs is very slow compared for
example operations between NT NT and also it has been sometimes
a little error prone.

Jari