I am setting up a new Mac and therefore also copying quite a lot of data from SMB shares on a new Unraid server.

I am struggling with a specific Adobe Lightroom folder that is both large with multiple subdirectories and has a total of "thousands of files" (maybe 100k?).

 

When trying to copy this folder to my Mac, Finder only displays "Preparing top copy" and never starts the actual copying. Using rsync on the Mac from command line is stuck on "Building file list".

 

Is it "impossible" to copy this folder to my Mac without e.g. tar'ing it in Unraid before copying?

I did some Googling and see that there are some SMB settings recommended for Mac - but what are the latest and greatest of what settings to use for 6.12.3?

Try copying to a disk share (or exclusive share), it should be much faster with that many files.

On 8/16/2023 at 12:05 PM, JorgeB said:

Try copying to a disk share (or exclusive share), it should be much faster with that many files.

 

I ended up using NFS instead of SMB. NFS is much faster and responsive on Mac than SMB. SMB was not usable from my Mac. NFS has been working fine, but there is one application that struggles a bit - so I am wondering what to do. I am also wondering if I should try TrueNAS instead.

 

I have not been able to find any good documentation on disk shares. The Unraid documentation is very high level and lacking.

How does disk share work? Will one share = one disk? So if you need more space on a share it is not possible due to it being bound to one physical disk?

What about the exclusive share? What is it and how does it work? 

 

Edited September 5, 20232 yr by ziggy99

Disk shares can be used with a single array disk and/or pool.

Exclusive shares can be used with pool only.

 

Both will have much better performance compared with user shares since FUSE is bypassed.