RE: Shared File Access Slow

[Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

File sharing is still HUGELY slow and unreliable after all these years when using NetServer/QNTC.

We have resorted to other methods such as using NFS shares to Windows servers (which works well) and also using SAMBA for Netbios file copies from the i. 

We have asked to get the SAMBA server and client implemented on i. 

I'm not sure if our IBM requirement will ever make it into the OS, but we at least tried :-)

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message: 3
date: Wed, 02 May 2012 23:48:55 -0500
from: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Shared File Access Slow

Rogers

What version of the OS are you on? IBM has improved IFS performance some, although still not optimum when compared to file servers on Windows.

I hope someone can contradict that statement - we (RJS) have a requirement in to IBM around this matter.

Vern

On 5/2/2012 2:12 PM, Laine, Rogers wrote:
> Guys,
>
>
>
> I mapped a drive to my IFS file share and it takes a long time to 
> bring back the directory of files.
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> The directory has about 500 files under it and the directory size is
> 6.00 TB.
>
> I Stopped then Started the Windows Network Neighborhood Server, but it 
> is still very slow.
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> What can be done to speed this up?
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>
> Rogers