The mount options suggested in the other post (noreadahead and nolocalcaches) are pretty bad for performance--any kind of performance, "local" or "remote". They serve very specific needs and using them as a rule of thumb is a horrible idea.
Amit On Apr 2, 11:29 am, Guy Brooker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The previous message on the discussion group mentioned speed problems > when using sshfs in the Finder. > > http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse-devel/browse_thread/thread/2ff... > > I'm tinkering with my own FS, which talks to a remote device. I > noticed that if I didn't return kHasCustomIcon in finderFlagsAtPath, > then the Finder would try to read the first 4096 bytes of every file > in a directory. I presume this must be some quicklook style detection > to try and create an icon (I'm running under Leopard). > > When talking to a remote device, reading the first block of every file > is pretty time consuming, so I suggest adding a note to the MacFuse > documentation encouraging implementors of remote filesystems to either > provide icons for each of the files, or using the mount options > suggested in the post mentioned above. > > Guy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "macfuse-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
