nautilus performance when copying several files from smbnetfs (fuse)

[muzzol]

I'm using smbnetfs for accesing a remote fileserver:

   smbnetfs on /tmp/test type fuse.smbnetfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=e10000)

when I copy a directory with several (hundreds) of files performance is really bad and it takes lot of time.

for example a directori with 300 files takes 5 seconds with `cp' command

   $ time cp -r USMT301/ /tmp/

   real 0m4.671s
   user 0m0.020s
   sys 0m0.128s

and with nautilus takes about 10 minutes. so it's clearly a problem with nautilus, not smbnetfs.
if you copy just one big file (for example an ISO) performance is OK.

to replicate just launch smbnetfs and copy a dir with several files with nautilus.

I'm not sure if it affects other fuse filesystems and it seems related to nautilus not recognizing fuse mount point as a remote filesystem.

maybe related:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101691
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657208

this is a critical stopper for me as I already migrated 50 desktops to linux in my department and I just discovered this.
any solution or workaround will be really wellcome.

please, ask for further info.

   $ lsb_release -rd
   Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
   Release: 12.04

   ii nautilus 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu8 file manager and graphical shell for GNOME
   ii smbnetfs 0.5.3a-1 User-space filesystem for SMB/NMB (Windows) network servers

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.