Dan Ritter wrote: ... > There are situations in which it can take much longer than a few > seconds. They require a large amount of data to write and a slow > storage mechanism. > > Specific example: recursive copying of music files to my USB-2 > attached music player, which has an actual write speed of about > 20 MB per second. The cp -r or rsync of a few gigabytes can > return well before the data is actually written.
i have a pretty large io buffer so when i copy some big files and then sync it may take as long as 30 or more seconds even with a decent SSD. songbird
