Samba share problem with large files

[Rooby]

Hello

I have enabled samba share of a 16Gig USB Stick (FAT32) on RT-AC66U.
I can access the stick via WLAN on my PC.
But when I copy a large file (500Meg) it will hang.
When I copy a small file there is no issue.
On windows it hangs on calculating the time for copying until there pops up an network error when the file is large. It looks like the bigger the file the longer the calculation time until it takes too long and an error occurs.
Could it be that there will be first a dummy file created on the disk and then the data is copied into it? This would explain why it takes longer time if the file is bigger. Can this be changd?

 

[Rankdropper84]

What firmware version are you on? I have also found that using FTP while inside my network is better than samba FWIW

Can you elaborate a little more also? Are you having trouble copying larger files only do your usb stick or does this also include copying files to your windows PC? Are you just copying files to an already shared folder? I would also look into the format of your usb storage. While i do have a 120GB WD external drive formatted using fat32 i do get some weird entries occasionally in my router log compared to having zero problems with my 5TB external drive formatted to NTFS. I have heard from others that EXT3 is the best for these routers although i don't see EXT4 being any worse than EXT3.

 

[Rooby]

Thanks for your answer.
I can copy to the stick without problems when it is directly connected to the PC. But what I found was when I use the same USB stick with NTFS I do not have problems, it starts copying immediately laso the big files. It seems to be a FAT32 issue on the router. So I will use NTFS instead of FAT32. since I want to have the possiblity to connect it directly to a windows PC.

 

[Rankdropper84]

Glad to here

 

[RussellInCincinnati]

am preferring performance with NTFS compared to ext2

Thanks for your answer.
I can copy to the stick without problems when it is directly connected to the PC. But what I found was when I use the same USB stick with NTFS I do not have problems,

My experience with RT-AC68u and the _50 firmware suggest NTFS for highest performance on large file copies. Compared to ext2. One could say that Linux driver authors have had many years now to pound out a pretty good interface to NTFS. There probably is not perfect support of every conceivable NTFS single-volume feature, but that would be a NAS's job, not a WiFi router with USB convenience ports.

 

[RMerlin]

My experience with RT-AC68u and the _50 firmware suggest NTFS for highest performance on large file copies. Compared to ext2. One could say that Linux driver authors have had many years now to pound out a pretty good interface to NTFS. There probably is not perfect support of every conceivable NTFS single-volume feature, but that would be a NAS's job, not a WiFi router with USB convenience ports.

And sparse support is probably another good reason to use NTFS for disk that will store large files rather than FAT32.