Subject: Re: Sherlock from Mac OS 9 slow
From: Lorenzo Perone (lopez.on.the.lists@yellowspace.net)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2001 - 16:04:55 EST
At 15:32 Uhr -0500 29.03.2001, Vic Landi wrote:
>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)
Hi!
I don't understand why a different filesystem should be needed.
I mean, _find_ works way faster than sherlock searches on netatalk - wouldn't it be possible to link to find or its library, or use its sources to implement a faster search?
I made some tests over a Perl CGI using find (plannig to make a sherlock plug-in with file:// urls), and though slower than sherlock-on-asip, it was very usable for what concerns the speed (on netatalk sherlock is unusable, let's face it - at least on volumes larger than 4GB).
Unfortunately, because my netatalk is not yet using codepages, I can't use this CGI yet (url / character conversion issues...).
If I get to finish it and it looks usable I can post that cgi here, but I'd prefer somebody could implement something like find-in-netatalk......
:-)
Lorenzo
>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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