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AndyD

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Registered: 2014-11-25

Posts: 13

Slow cifs access blocks all local operations in Thunar

Hi people,
I'm experiencing some annoying Thunar behaviour: When I'm actively accessing a cifs-mounted network drive (open directory, file transfer), I can't use Thunar for any local file operations. For example, if I start a large file transfer to the network drive, I can't browse through the filesystem to find some music to distract me. Interestingly, I can still browse through the vlc "open file" dialog.

Is this standard behaviour? It seems to me that you don't need a lock on all local files while doing a write to network storage, especially since I don't see the same behaviour when using the drive mounted through webdav (which is not an option for everyday work, since the webdav access is a lot slower than cifs)

relevant fstab entries:

# mount  drive by webdav
https://webdav.server   /mnt/group_webdav       davfs   user,noauto,rw 0       0

# mount QIV group drive
//groups.server    /mnt/groupdrive    cifs    iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/AndyD/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,sec=ntlmv2,users,soft,noauto   0       0

$ pacman -Qi thunar | grep Version
Version         : 1.6.10-2

$ pacman -Qs cifs-utils
local/cifs-utils 6.4-1

I'd be happy for any suggestions as to what it could be. Otherwise I'm ready to file a bug report with the Thunar people.