External Storage - Rello/audioplayer GitHub Wiki

A library scan on external storage can cause significant performance implications when using certain SMB connections.

Indications are:

• warning on a library scan
  Attention: Only slow indexing due to server config. See Audio Player wiki on GitHub for details.
• PHP error
  … unable to create pipe Too many open files at …

In these cases, it is advised to install the alternative libsmbclient-php.

• Source: https://github.com/eduardok/libsmbclient-php
• Install e.g. on Debian: sudo apt-get install php-smbclient

Additional information: Nextcloud Server Administration Manual – SMB/CIFS