External Storage

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Thomas Marx edited this page Jul 1, 2017 · 2 revisions

A library scan on external storage can cause significant performance implications when using certain SMB connections.

Indications are:

warning on a library scan
Attention: Only slow indexing due to server config. See Audio Player wiki on GitHub for details.
PHP error
… unable to create pipe Too many open files at …

In these cases, it is advised to install the alternative libsmbclient-php.

Source: https://github.com/eduardok/libsmbclient-php
Install e.g. on Debian: sudo apt-get install php-smbclient

Additional information: Nextcloud Server Administration Manual – SMB/CIFS