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Hello!

I found this same question asked back in 2005, but never answered:

    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-September/098717.html

Today, 7 years later, using FreeBSD-9.1 I observe, that copying a file 
to an SMB-server (a box with embedded Linux, actually), I get just under 
1Mb/s using an smbfs mount.

On contrast, uploading the same file to the same remote host using 
smbclient runs at between 8 and 9 Mb/s.

Is this a known discrepancy? Are there tweaks to be applied to the smbfs 
mount, that can make it perform better? Thanks! Yours,

    -mi