> This is not helpful. You insist that you know what is going on when I > was in front of the computer and you were not. File copying to an ext2 > filesystem on a usb drive is 10x slower than to an ffs filesystem on > an internal sata drive mounted async (ext2 is async; apples to > apples). I know because I've measured it, including the time to sync. > The file in question was 1.5 GB. That copy should have taken 150 > seconds or so at the rates I measured. The system sat there for two > hours, as I said in my message. And when I came back, it was making no > progress, as I also said in my message. I'm done discussing this. I've > reported what I found and offered to help debug it. My workaround is > simple: I will do these backup disk updates and anything else > involving ext2/usb disks with Linux.
Then why all the angst? If you really wanted it fixed you have the src code. Yelling at people isn't helpful either, is it?
