Hi!

One of my annex repository has a very strange behavior. Every git annex command is very slow.

I'm using MacOSX Mavericks, and this repository is a network drive, mounted with Samba. It's using direct mode, and the filesystem is crippled. I use annex for storing huge files, for example movies. I moved some files in this directory, and used git annex add. It was long (as checksum was performed) and I thought that everything was OK. I tried git log -p, it was OK too:

new file mode 120000
index 0000000..e58c65a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Movies/movie.mp4
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../.git/annex/objects/FK/60/SHA256E-s346858581--053dca6a842376ab8022722df306ad5
\ No newline at end of file

However it was not. I tried to launch git annex sync another_repo (with another_repo indirect and on a local disk) and it took ages. Even git annex list takes ages, on every repository linked to this one. With ps -A, I found out that the issue was created by git --git-dir=/Volumes/SAMBA_REMOTE/.git --work-tree=/Volumes/SAMBA_REMOTE -c core.bare=false checkout -q -B annex/direct/master.

Have you ever noticed this behavior? Have I done something wrong?

Here is the output of git annex version:

git-annex version: 5.20131117-gbd514dc
build flags: Assistant Webapp Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV FsEvents XMPP DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA CryptoHash
key/value backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SKEIN256E SKEIN512E SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SKEIN256 SKEIN512 WORM URL
remote types: git gcrypt S3 bup directory rsync web webdav glacier hook
local repository version: 4
default repository version: 3
supported repository versions: 3 5
upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2 4