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Readynas 102 connection problem with Apple Macs
I have a client in a design studio where we installed a 2 disk (2x3TB) Readynas 102 about a year ago. The PC's on the network see the folders really quickly but the two Macs seem to have a proble...
brosnahan1114
Please accept my apoligies. I got my threads mixed up. Your input here is relevant. Sorry.
barryd,
No need to appologize. I really didn't want to hijack your thread, which seems really important for you to address for your client, but I figured my problem was the same thing you/your client was experiencing.
Hopefully I will be able to get this resolved shortly.
I figured I would check back in here and give an update.
I opened a case with Netgear support. It got elevated to L2 Support. Supports resolution was to get a faster hard drive and create smaller directories so the Mac OSX Finder doesn't have to work so hard to display the results.
Now I will say that this tech kept saying that this is a workaround. I did bring up the contents of this thread in my case, so I can't say I'm really buying this workaround.
The tech closed this case, so I will now have to go another route to solve this with a better workaround.
brosnahan1114 wrote:I figured I would check back in here and give an update.
I opened a case with Netgear support. It got elevated to L2 Support. Supports resolution was to get a faster hard drive and create smaller directories so the Mac OSX Finder doesn't have to work so hard to display the results.
Now I will say that this tech kept saying that this is a workaround. I did bring up the contents of this thread in my case, so I can't say I'm really buying this workaround.
The tech closed this case, so I will now have to go another route to solve this with a better workaround.
This is not really a solution at all. "Create smaller directories"? What does that mean? Store less stuff on your drive? Well yes I think that will work but its not very practical.
Have they applied the vfs_fruit fix that mdgm did for me yet? Thats what you need. To be fair to netgear though its Apple that need to fix this.
barryd wrote:
"Create smaller directories"? What does that mean? Store less stuff on your drive?
No. It just means using more subfolders. For instance instead of having 10,000 jpgs in a flat folder, organize it as 10 subfolders with 1,000 jpgs each.
Speed of directory browsing is not a strength of CIFS/SMB - if you look at smallnetbuilder reviews (for any NAS) you will see that is usually the slowest benchmark.
barryd wrote:
Have they applied the vfs_fruit fix that mdgm did for me yet? Thats what you need. To be fair to netgear though its Apple that need to fix this.
I agree that would be a good thing to try. I suspect the L2 tech might not have been aware of it.
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