Hi All,
I've searched about this extensively but am having trouble figuring it out.
I'm connecting to my Freenas via AFP. I know I should be using SMB, but all my photography folders contain illegal SMB characters (mainly the "/" char). I tried attaching the fruit advanced option but the names still come out mangled on the Mac end. Thus, I'm sticking to AFP until someone comes up wiht a solution.
The problem right now is that in both AFP & SMB, directory listing is sloooooow. I have to wait 4 or 5 seconds or so for previously unloaded folders to load their files. Once loaded, they have to reload every few hours and opening up the server during a new boot up on my Mac slows everything down again. I thus have a few questions:
1) What is the optimal file sharing preference for Macs?
2) If the answer is SMB, how do I prevent name mangling for files that have illegal characters? Changing the file names is not an option for me (too many programs linked up to their preexisting file names)
3) In both SMB & AFP, why do I see a 100MB/s transfer speed for speed test but see at most 50 MB/s for real file transfers (not just one file being moved back and forth)
4) Most importantly, how do I fix the slow directing loading for a Mac? It makes my Freenas damn near unusable because my file tree hierarchy has very deep roots, so going a few folders down takes 20 seconds.
I've searched about this extensively but am having trouble figuring it out.
I'm connecting to my Freenas via AFP. I know I should be using SMB, but all my photography folders contain illegal SMB characters (mainly the "/" char). I tried attaching the fruit advanced option but the names still come out mangled on the Mac end. Thus, I'm sticking to AFP until someone comes up wiht a solution.
The problem right now is that in both AFP & SMB, directory listing is sloooooow. I have to wait 4 or 5 seconds or so for previously unloaded folders to load their files. Once loaded, they have to reload every few hours and opening up the server during a new boot up on my Mac slows everything down again. I thus have a few questions:
1) What is the optimal file sharing preference for Macs?
2) If the answer is SMB, how do I prevent name mangling for files that have illegal characters? Changing the file names is not an option for me (too many programs linked up to their preexisting file names)
3) In both SMB & AFP, why do I see a 100MB/s transfer speed for speed test but see at most 50 MB/s for real file transfers (not just one file being moved back and forth)
4) Most importantly, how do I fix the slow directing loading for a Mac? It makes my Freenas damn near unusable because my file tree hierarchy has very deep roots, so going a few folders down takes 20 seconds.