Michal Kurgan napsal(a):
Recently i spotted that my usb flash memory work very slow, about 5kB/s on write. On internet search i discover that it's problem with new kernel (2.6.12) and "sync" mount option, that is now correctly(?) respected by fat filesystem. This is my case, but i want to have sth like sync when using removable devices, is there any option to do this? I much prefer that i see that sth is copied, not only then when i will try unmount device (in this case i don't know if there are any problems, earlier with sync i saw transfer rate, and this is what i want)
This behaviour is caused by change in the vfat driver. It now respects the sync option and the slow speed is caused by frequent updating of the FAT table. Some info can be found here: http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/22/111748.html
The only solution seem to be to use the async option. -- Miroslav Flídr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
