snarlydwarf;184308 Wrote: > Are both systems accessing via SMB? Many NAS boxes support NFS... It > may be that NFS provides faster access. (Which wouldnt surprise me at > all, less 'abstraction' going on, though the difference is huge and > that wouldnt explain it all unless SMB is really really dumb and left > out something as crucial as random access to files... "please read the > last 4k of the file to look for a tag" is a lot faster than "please > grab the whole file so I can find the tag...") > > Now I am curious as to what operations SMB supports.
Can you actually do that, only open/read a portion of a file? I'm just a "sorta" programmer, but I am only aware of methods of opening an entire file at once. -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ~~~ SB3 (wired - 6.3.1) | Home-brew PC running XP Pro | DENON DRA-395 | PSB Stratus Bronze (2) | Outlaw Audio LFM-2 (1) | DIY Speaker Cables | Dayton Audio Interconnects ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33041 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
