[KLUG Members] Samba share with lots of files

[Dirk H Bartley]

I moved a directory from a 98 host to a samba share.  It is a directory that has 26050
files and is 889MB in size.  It is a collection of scanned images.  The filesystem is
ext2.  The issue I would like to solve is that it takes about 45 seconds for the list of
files to appear in nethood when seeking the list of files.  Is there a way to reduce this
time without sectioning off these files onto other directories?  Would this be improved if
I used reisrfs?  Is it that the filesystem needs to have the files stored sorted in the
correct order?  This is frustrating because when the application being used accesses the
files on it's own fat32 hard drive it takes only a couple of seconds.  I would much prefer
to keep these files on the samba server if I could get better performance getting the list
of files on the directory.

Dirk