Re: fusefs + smbfs
On 12/19/05, fabrizio <shakin89@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi everybody.
> At the moment i'm using smbmount and smbfs utilities, but i'm not satisfied
> with this tool, cause using gnome with nautilus and browsing dirs or shares
> is really slow and not efficient.
> so i'm looking at fusefs + smbfs. is someone using it? how are the
> performances? is it better than smbfs or not?
> my needs are to mount various shares greater than 1 tb, (are on emc2
> storage) exported using cifs protocol.
> so i'm looking for a client that allow me to use this share in a reasonable
> way, moving files and dirs which each contain more than 10k files. At the
> moment opening a dir containing 10k files need more than a minute with
> nautilus ang smbfs tools
> any help or suggestion about tools to be used will be appreciated!
> thanks
> fabrizio
>
any fuse filesystem will incur quite a bit of overhead. If you are
looking for high throughput, fuse is not what you want.
try using cifs. smbfs is deprecated. Both have their share of quirky
bugs, but at least cifs is actively maintained and hopefully someday
will be perfect.
a basic fstab entry looks something like:
//host.domain/share /media/cifsmount cifs
cifsexec,credentials=/home/username/.cifs,uid=username,noauto
/home/username/.cifs is a text file containing the username and
password for //host.domain/share.
it should look like:
username=smb-user-name
password=my-password
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