Posts by snailseyes

  • Samba issue concerning delay when copying files

    I suspect that the symptoms you describe are particular of exfat rather than samba. When copying large files to exfat, it seems to be a two step process, i.e. create a bucket, then fill it up. The creation of the bucket phase is the intial delay; copy progress is only shown during the filling up phase. I think the total transfer speeds are probably actually okay, but there is something odd about the way progress is reported. I found this feature of exfat (when used with samba) to be sufficiently problematic that I formatted my storage as ext4 instead.