Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:31:35 -0500 From: "Mikhail T." <mi+b@aldan.algebra.com> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Need help with sysutils/fusefs-smbnetfs Message-ID: <8868a37f-90ad-a271-2295-bf67164fad19@aldan.algebra.com>
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Hello!
I've recently become a user, and then the maintainer of the
fuse-smbnetfs port. With the mount_smbfs becoming increasingly obsolete,
the port seems like the only solution for accessing Windows shares from
a FreeBSD system.
The problem is very poor performance. The software uses Samba's
libsmbclient and thus should be capable of throughput comparable to that
of smbclient. Unfortunately, the same files I can get here at about
20MB/second with smbclient, can only be accessed at about 500KB/s with
smbnetfs.
If I use the "direct_io" flag to mount, the read bandwidth jumps to
5-8MB/s, which represents an impressive gain, but is still far below
smbclient's performance.
The very fact, that the "direct_io" flag makes such a profound
difference, made me think, the software's interface with our FUSE
implementation may be at fault...
The upstream developer primarily works with Linux -- and is not very
responsive at any rate. Can any of the FreeBSD's FUSE-developers take a
look at the port -- the codebase is not very large -- and suggest any
optimizations?
Feel free to contact me directly with any ideas and/or patches.
Thank you. Yours,
-mi
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