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Subject: File performance with Millions of files in one directory
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 08:24:35 -0700
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From: "Neil Cook" <neil.cook@onstor.com>
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Hello all,

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I=92m currently looking into an issue where the customer is seeing poor =
performance where retrieving files from a CIFS share. The system uses a =
UNC path to connect and then pull down the image file. Has anyone see =
any performance issues with this type of configuration in the past?=20

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I=92m not convinced its totally an ONStor issue at the moment, just =
looking to see if anyone else had encountered similar issues.

=20

Regards,

=20




Neil Cook
Senior Technical Support &=20

Escalations Engineer

ONStor, Inc.
Office:  +44 1189 635 866
Mobile: +44 7887 685 582=20

=20

HYPERLINK "mailto:neil.cook@onstor.com"neil.cook@onstor.com
HYPERLINK "http://www.onstor.com/"http://www.onstor.com

=20

=20

EMEA Support Line

Phone:  +44 (0) 8707 347 448

Email:   HYPERLINK "mailto:Support@ONStor.com"Support@ONStor.com

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