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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...
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.
First thing I'll say is that the tech was very thorough. He went through everything to make sure it was set up correctly as well as could be performing at its best. I'm sure he wasn't aware of the vfs_fruit work around. It's also too bad that there is a known defect (I use this term loosely) with the way Apple implemented CIFS/SMB and that we seek a work around from a third party.
Yes, StephenB is correct. The direction was to organize subfolders with a lower amount of files. Figuring out that limit could take time. My guess using my Mac is that it will be less then 1000 files per subfolder, I'd have to retest that to be certain.
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