Just to close this off, when using Samba with ZFS it seems to be very
important (if you have many files in a directory) to make it case
sensitive as per:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Performance_tuning#Handling_Large_Directories.
Everything is now roses and works as expected.
Sorry ZFS that I accused you! ;)
Thanks again!
// Albert
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Albert Cervin <albert at acervin.com>
wrote:> Hi again,
>
> I have conducted a few other experiments and concluded that ZFS is NOT
> the culprit here and my suspicions now go to Samba instead which seems
> to behave really badly under these conditions...
>
> Thanks for all the ZFS help though, much appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
> Albert
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Gerrit K?hn <gerrit.kuehn at
aei.mpg.de> wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:06:38 +0000 krad <kraduk at gmail.com>
wrote about Re:
>> ZFS - poor performance with "large" directories:
>>
>> K> consumer SSDs are cheap enough now not to bother with usb drives
I would
>> K> imagine.
>>
>> Sure. I was just suggesting a USB drive as a quick way to check if this
>> might help at all. Most people have USB drives lying around, and they
can
>> simply be plugged into any computer. A SSD (cheap or not) more likely
>> needs to be bought first, and the server box might need to be opened to
>> have it installed.
>>
>>
>> cu
>> Gerrit
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