Re: [Samba] fast parallel crawling of file systems

2012-11-17 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 04:27:40PM -0800, Di Pe wrote: > > If I scan a windows 2008 server I can scan many millon files in about > 1 hour, If I do the same thing with samba it takes more than 1 day. It > takes longer to scan to re-exported nfs share than the local share but > not a whole lot so I

[Samba] fast parallel crawling of file systems

2012-11-16 Thread Di Pe
Hi, I use a disk space inventory tool called TreeSizePro to scan file filesystems on windows and linux boxes. On Linux systems I export these shares via samba to scan them. TreeSizePro is multi-threaded (32 crawlers) and I run it on windows 7. I am scanning file systems that are local to the linux