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SuperVivid

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Mar 20, 2015
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Hey Guys,

first of all I'm sorry to bother you with another dotfiles Thread but i searched for half an hour and didn't find something fitting my problem. im running a OSX 10.10 Server in my company and use it for filesharing (via SMB with Open Directory). It's a MacMini and there are several (3) Drobos connected to it which store and backup our data.

When i set up the server everything was fine and fast. But the (finder browsing) perfomance is dropping and dropping. I found out that there must be a coherence with the dot files. We are using Mac client with the Server. I can run a Windows VM and mount the same networkdrives than everything is just fine.

I used dot_clean on some directorys (And didn't fully understand what it did) but after that the browsing speed really improved. So I decided to kick the dotfiles. What is the best practice to do this?

Should i run this on every client?
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true

And than on my server run
sudo dot_clean -vsn /Volumes/*
&
find . -type f -name "._*" -exec rm "{}" \;


Is this a good idea? I'd like to know a way to disable the creation of dotfiles on the serverside and not to have to do it on every client.


thank you in advance
 
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