Slow Deletes on Iomega NAS Drive

[Kenneth Jacker]

[ Ubuntu 9.10 ]

After some Internet searching, I found that my 2TB Iomega NAS drive was
mounted under "~/.gvfs" on my Ubuntu machine (accessible using
Nautilus).  I cd'ed to the parent of a directory that I wanted to delete
(containing ~100 GB), and then used "rm -fr" on that directory.

It has been more than three hours since I hit "<enter>", and the command
has yet to complete.  Doing this on my primary hard drive would have
taken a few seconds ... maybe a minute?

Why is Samba so slow?  Is there a better way to delete?

Copying files is also very slow from Ubuntu, though MacOS seemed to run
faster ...

BTW, I tried to delete the dir using the NAS's web interface.  But, the
directory didn't show up ... it is "invisible", with a name starting
with a "period".  *No* such "invisible" dirs/files are displayed via my
browser (though they do show up from within Ubuntu).

Something else is missing: copying of "symbolic links" (not the content
pointed to by the link).  This means that a "restore" from the NAS won't
create an identical image.  Not good.

I like the idea of the drive.  But the Linux "performance" and some of
the limitations/restrictions concern me.

Are others using this device?  How do *you* use it?  Samba?

Thanks for your ideas!
-- 
Prof Kenneth H Jacker       khj at cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept       www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA