vmunich Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 I only have 1 parity drive and 1 data drive running, 2x3TB HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 drives. I can make 100Mb/s transfer between Windows machines and the server. Folders also load instantly on Windows. I have the cache dirs plugin enabled. Overall performance is fine on Windows, but on OSX, it's very poor. Using either AFP or SMB, folders take a long time to load on OSX, transfer speeds are low. Should I be using NFS on OSX? If yes, which settings/mounting options should I use? Any other recommendations? Thanks Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Which OS X are you using and which unRAID? I use AFP to connect my older Macs running Lion and SMB for my newer MacBook Pro running Sierra to an unRAID server running 6.3.2 with the Samba OS X optimisations enabled. To speed up AFP access and make it more reliable I moved the netatalk database out of the root of each share and onto my SSD cache pool. See here. For versions of unRAID earlier than 6.3 I found AFP preferable to SMB with all versions of OS X. Quote Link to comment
vmunich Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 2 minutes ago, John_M said: Which OS X are you using and which unRAID? I use AFP to connect my older Macs running Lion and SMB for my newer MacBook Pro running Sierra to an unRAID server running 6.3.2 with the Samba OS X optimisations enabled. To speed up AFP access and make it more reliable I moved the netatalk database out of the root of each share and onto my SSD cache pool. See here. For versions of unRAID earlier than 6.3 I found AFP preferable to SMB with all versions of OS X. I'm using OS X Sierra, UnRAID 6.2. Which Samba OS X optimizations are you talking about? Are these specific to UnRAID 6.3? Also I don't have SSD caching. Thank you. Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 (edited) Yes, they are specific to 6.3.2 onwards and can be enabled on a per-share basis. For 6.3.0 and 6.3.1 they were forced on, which caused a slightly obscure problem to a small number of Windows users. Your best option is probably to upgrade to 6.3.2 and use SMB with the optimisations enabled. Edited February 22, 2017 by John_M added screenshot Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 searching is your friend: Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 12 minutes ago, 1812 said: searching is your friend: I had assumed, since he didn't say otherwise, that the OP was using a real Mac, not a virtual one. Quote Link to comment
vmunich Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 (edited) 16 minutes ago, 1812 said: searching is your friend: I'm talking about physical Macs, not virtual machines. Edited February 22, 2017 by vmunich Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 (edited) 4 minutes ago, John_M said: I had assumed, since he didn't say otherwise, that the OP was using a real Mac, not a virtual one. I had assumed it was a VM since I didn't see which sub-section it was posted in! probably my bad. But with that said, smb with a real mac to 6.2.4 is poo.. not good and afp is much better once enabled on the server. Folders take a little longer to load but nearly max gigabit connections. Edited February 22, 2017 by 1812 Quote Link to comment
vmunich Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 49 minutes ago, John_M said: Yes, they are specific to 6.3.2 onwards and can be enabled on a per-share basis. For 6.3.0 and 6.3.1 they were forced on, which caused a slightly obscure problem to a small number of Windows users. Your best option is probably to upgrade to 6.3.2 and use SMB with the optimisations enabled. I will reboot my server to apply the update and check that out. Thank you! Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 5 minutes ago, 1812 said: smb with a real mac to 6.2.4 is poo.. not good and afp is much better once enabled on the server. Folders take a little longer to load but nearly max gigabit connections. You might want to read the OP and my initial reply, 1812. Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 5 hours ago, John_M said: You might want to read the OP and my initial reply, 1812. D'oh...! Quote Link to comment
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