Subject: Re: Sherlock from Mac OS 9 slow
From: Vic Landi (vic@mail.jamesltaylor.com)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2001 - 15:32:33 EST
I've been looking for a solution as well, however I'm afraid there is not
one yet. The problem is that the Mac OS uses a db to make the searches
faster (a hidden file that makes records on where everything is) So when
you do a sherlock search on a netatalk server you actively search through
the directory tree, taking a lot of time. Solutions to this have been
posed... These include the ext3 file system (if and when it comes out) and
rasierfs (this I'm unsure of)
However, from what I saw in the public beta of OS X, even that was slower,
but not as slow... could it be that apple has devised a way of their own?
Vic Landi
> From: "Bernard M. Piller" <bernard@bmpsystems.com>
> Organization: bmp System Support - keep your systems running
> Reply-To: bernard@bmpsystems.com
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:25:30 +0200
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Subject: Sherlock from Mac OS 9 slow
> Resent-From: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:34:45 -0500 (EST)
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a RedHat 6.2 Server running and while the server itself is very fast,
> Sherlock is extremly slow when doing searches from Mac OS 9 clients. The
> server volumes are large, with about 50GB of data on every drive.
>
> I know there where problems with netatalk not supporting the FPCatSearch
> function which Sherlock uses.
>
> Is this fixed in some version of netatalk out there on the net or does
> someone know another solution to this problem?
>
> Bernard
>
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