I think SMB is quite chatty -- if you have lots of small files, you can get quite slow.

That was SMBv1. Not SMB of today.

	▲	brigade 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Still true for extended attributes, which Finder and Spotlight love to query.

WorldPeas 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

...and don't even get me started on locking, if many people write to one file you're on borrowed time