Network absolute path

[DavidL]

(15-01-2016 11:00)simoncn Wrote:  

(15-01-2016 10:34)DavidL Wrote:  OK Simon, I understand. Why is rescanning so slow on a NAS? The read heads have to do the same work traversing the platters, for a given disc capacity. Is it a result of having RAID on the NAS, or indexing giving a more rapid search on a USB disc? I've setup indexing on my Synology DS412+ but not noticed any reduction in rescanning times.

Rescanning on a NAS isn't slow if MinimServer is running on the same NAS, so it isn't related to RAID. I think it is probably caused by the way Java's support for scanning a directory tree interacts with the SMB/CIFS protocol for accessing a remote network disk. I have looked at the network messages that are exchanged during scanning but my knowledge of the SMB/CIFS protocol wasn't sufficient for me to identify a specific cause. I don't think there is much I can do about this because MinimServer is limited to using the directory scanning APIs that Java provides.

Thanks for the detailed response Simon.