file sharing painfully slow

[Dan Shoop]

At 4:14 PM -0400 3/20/07, Chris Murphy wrote:
>On Mar 20, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:
>
>>In that case you're complaining about just the stat that's done. 
>>That too is transferred file by file so 900 files is a lot to stat 
>>through.
>>
>>But it's well known not to keep large numbers of files in 
>>directories on Macs for these reasons...
>
>That's a complete b.s. suggestion. It could only be "well known" 
>because the Finder handling a simple task in a very stupid manner. 
>There is no HFS+ limitation to the number of files or folders within 
>a folder (root level yes), and 900 items doesn't even remotely 
>approach the level of what's unreasonable EXCEPT in this context 
>because the Finder is clearly so poorly behaved. I do not have these 
>kinds of performance problems in the same situation using Windows 
>and that's just embarrassing.

Well Windows is embarrassingly dumb wrt file browsing. So saying that 
a dumb something is better than a smart one that wants some info to 
bring those smarts is complaining about getting the extra cream in 
your coffee.

>The amount of file metadata is nothing in comparison to sending a 
>128x128 pixel icon redundantly for every cotton picking image.

It's not.
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-dhan

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