NFS mount access slow
Hi all, I am having some issues with performance on a share I'm mounting through Client for NFS. The initial mapping works fine (although I have to re-connect it manually at startup, because Windows tries to re-map the drive before it starts client for NFS). When I connect, I see the first list of folders with no trouble. However, as soon as I click on a folder to open it up, Windows Explorer sits and goes 'Not Responding' for 1-2 minutes. Performance is the fine for the most part, but intermittently it will again take 30-60 seconds to open a folder. Searching around on the internet, I found the suggestion to use the casesensitive=yes option on the command-line mount call. When I do this, mount tells me 'the command completed successfully,' and I can navigate to the mounted drive on the command prompt, but the drive does not become visible in Windows Explorer. Is there a second step I need to do to make the mount available to the GUI? This seems to be an issue with 'mount' and not the specific options; casesensitive=no gives the same behavior. Thank you very much in advance!
December 6th, 2010 1:51pm

Hi, Thanks for the post! The speed of accessing NFS could be effected by many reasons. Please refer to this: Causes of slow access times for NFS. Troubleshooting the possible causes mentioned in this doc. Please Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information. Regards, MiyaThis posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. | Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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December 8th, 2010 3:29am

Hi, Thank you for the answer. Unfortunately, this document does not help me: it does not refer to utilities on the windows client for NFS, nor does it address the issue I am facing. There are two main problems that need to be addressed: 1) Windows Explorer is very slow at accessing the NFS share, while other programs are very fast (e.g. if I browse through with FileZilla) 2) The NFS share does not properly reconnect at startup. Windows attempts to reconnect the share before the Client for NFS service is started.
January 3rd, 2011 12:33pm

Are there any updates on this? I'm having the exact same issue. The same NFS shares work like a charm when mapped to a Windows XP computer, it's only Windows 7 where I'm seeing the issue.
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May 27th, 2011 11:25am

I bought Windows Ultimate with the understanding that NFS was supported. Why haven't these issues been resolved? Is my solution to simply return the product and use free software?
June 7th, 2011 8:09am

I bought Windows Ultimate with the understanding that NFS was supported. Why haven't these issues been resolved? ... It seems that the browsing directories or read/writes is affected by any sort of download (as little as 200KB/s). My computer and the NAS (using NFS) are separated by a netgear gigabit switch, and I think it fairly unlikely that the switch is dropping packets. Could anyone else confirm this behavior? Is it possible that data inbound on differing ports is somehow confusing the NFS client?
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June 7th, 2011 3:08pm

I bought Windows Ultimate with the understanding that NFS was supported. Why haven't these issues been resolved? ... It seems that the browsing directories or read/writes is affected by any sort of download (as little as 200KB/s). My computer and the NAS (using NFS) are separated by a netgear gigabit switch, and I think it fairly unlikely that the switch is dropping packets. Could anyone else confirm this behavior? Is it possible that data inbound on differing ports is somehow confusing the NFS client? NOTE: other connection & speed related workarounds I've discovered @ NFS Mounts don't properly reconnect
June 7th, 2011 3:08pm

A quick and dirty for mount on startup @echo off ECHO Checking connection, please wait... :TRYAGAIN PING -n 1 www.google.com | find "Reply from " >NUL IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 goto :SUCCESS IF ERRORLEVEL 1 goto :TRYAGAIN :SUCCESS C:\Windows\System32\mount.exe -u:USER -p:PASSWORD server:/share X:
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June 8th, 2011 4:07pm

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