First, an appology. I added another message on the RMS fiasco only to find out later the threads all died out and I was committing a faux pas. my appologies! please ignore I posted it if at all possible.
Second, here's my problem: I have here a workstation running an Athlon 3700+, and part of my job is to occasionally write out an image file to USB universal card reader, testing the product of my builds. The writing takes forever (since I haven't discovered how to get dd to write out the sparse image to the CF card sparsely). Also, untill I moved the card reader to one of the backpanel ports, the write would drag my entire environment to a halt at the same time - even the mouse pointer gets stuck at some point, until dd would finish. switching from front to back panel and adding the oflag=dsync option solved the freַ¯ing of the userspace but not the horrible writing speeds. I have a feeling this is a major bug with the USBstorage driver or some related module, but as this is old hardware running on the latest kernel from Ubuntu, I am surprised. Anyone got a clue? Thanks, Ira. -- Fastest gun in the west Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
