Hey everyone. I recently built a new NAS and I feel I've done everything right. I got NAS drives, and got SSDs to act as a metadata device.
Granted, my NAS is under heavy load right now as it's completing a backup, but using my NAS in the Windows file explorer is impossible. It can take upwards of 10 seconds to list a directory
I'm running ZFS on Debian 12, so I ssh'd into the box and started poking around. I found that when I cd'd into the ZFS mount, and ran ls, it was fine and extremely fast. Cat'ing files was also very fast too. But on Windows they take forever to open. I have Ethernet in the walls of my apartment so all my devices are linked at 1gbps. My NAS has 64gb of RAM and only 32GB is being used right now. VMs running on the NAS connected via SMB are also very fast (Nextcloud, Soulseek, etc.) When I start copying files to my local machine from my NAS, I see the speeds i'd expect to see (~70-100mb/sec)
Why is this? Am I doing something wrong?