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
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