[Thunar-dev] thunar speed

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 15.03.2006, 20:08 +0100 schrieb N. Volbers:
> Hi Benedikt,
> 
> >>
> >>For /usr/bin, that's the expected behaviour, and easy to explain. ROX
> >>doesn't do magic lookups on the MIME database, while Thunar follows the
> >>MIME spec (with one small exception) and does the magic lookup if none
> >>of the glob patterns match. Since Linux binaries usually don't include
> >>an extension, no glob patterns will match, and Thunar will have to open
> >>each file and check the magic patterns. Looking into 2128 files for the
> >>first time can take up to 20 seconds, depending on the systems I/O
> >>performance.
> >>
> >>Benedikt
> > 
> > 
> > This might be the explanation for the slowness I observed, since the 
> > directory was on a smb share mounted via smbfs and thus all files were 
> > probably executable. I will check that tomorrow when I am back at that 
> > computer.
> > 
> > Niklas.
> > 
> 
> Confirmed. The slow directory was a smbfs mounted share with all files 
> marked as executable. If I copy it over to my local hard drive, 
> everything is veeeery fast.

I wonder if that "feature" of smbfs will ever be corrected... probably
not.

Unbreak-my-filesystem option for smbfs is 

-o fmask=0664,dmask=0775

:)

cheers,
  Danny