Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Re: Sherlock takes a LONG time
From: a sun (asun@cobalt.com)
Date: Tue Nov 23 1999 - 18:11:41 EST
why I'm posting here. For the not-so-obvious answers. No changes to
either clients or server. No upgrades, no changes, no nothing. I've
already done the silly tech support blah blah blah and eliminated all
umm. netatalk is slow on finds because it doesn't have the FPCatSearch
command implemented. as a result, you have to spend a bunch of time
descending directories and poking at files. needless to say, that's
much slower than a database query. fyi, that's one of the reasons why
i broke the DID stuff. i wanted to be able to implement FPCatSearch in
a straightforward manner. a database that only did DID was too limited
for that use.
Which brings me to netatalk. The magic number of roughly 2G worth of
used disk space sounds like it *might* be some sort of arbitrary limit,
let's just say that 2GB probably corresponds to a fairly large number
of files. you'll notice that directory lookups are pretty slow for
directories with a lot of files in them. again, i hope to correct this
eventually, but it's a post-asun2.2 feature.
in other news, if someone would conveniently send me the kerberos
authentication spec, that would speed things up for an asun2.2 for
me.
-a
a believer in truth in advertising.
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