I am browsing by going Places -> Home Folder, then View -> Show Hidden Files and going into the .gvfs directory. From there I can select "gdh on localhost". I rely on ~/.gvfs to work with remote .rar and other large archive files with console / non-GNOME apps, since the 'unrar' console binary obviously has no idea what the "smb://" protocol is.
gvfs-ls is lightning-fast: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ time gvfs-ls sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/gdh/huge >/dev/null real 0m0.876s user 0m0.104s sys 0m0.016s Because gvfs-ls is also able to provide directory listings of local files too, I tried this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ time gvfs-ls /home/gdh/.gvfs/sftp\ on\ localhost/home/gdh/huge >/dev/null real 0m7.977s user 0m0.160s sys 0m0.068s So, 10 times slower to access trivial 'filename only' data using gvfs- ls. I expect that Nautilus is several orders of magnitude slower because of all the extra metadata it will be requesting for each file. I have tried disabling all the previews in Nautilus so that it doesn't count items in subdirs/generate icons for text-file, and 'Never' display preview for local files, but it's still taking minutes to show the contents of the 'huge' directory in ~/.gvfs/gdh on localhost/home/gdh/huge It's purely access via gvfs-fuse-daemon that is slow, therefore the question about 'non gvfs fuse mounts' doesn't make much sense. (for completeness, my NTFS partitions via fuseblk run as fast as ext3). -- Nautilus unusably slow with large ~/.gvfs dirs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230374 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
