Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [I read all postings in the archive AFAIK] > > Just started with CF on embedded hardware advertised to run OpenBSD; > ARInfoTek. It does run OpenBSD very well! > Now I want the embedded system to run off CF; the board has a CF > socket to be wd0. > 4.2 runs out of the box, but with very slow access of files. The CF is > reasonably fast, though, with ~6MB at 'dd'. But once it has to access > files for r/w, it gets very slow. > I found some postings that 4.3 would be better, but the install of 4.3 > here mainly -stalled- and took a good hour, from a local ftp-site. > locate.updatedb is incredibly fast, while some file extraction takes ages. > It looks like a large, single, file copies very fast, similar to > 'dd'. But opening a file for r/w seems to take ages. Something like > tar -C /tmp -xzphf etc43.tgz > takes a minute, easily. And etc43.tgz is only 1.2MB. > Copying of this file is quick: > $ date && cp etc43.tgz demo && date > Mon Oct 20 11:29:15 SGT 2008 > Mon Oct 20 11:29:16 SGT 2008 > > Any hint welcome,
try soft update : http://openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#SoftUpdates -- Guillaume Pinot http://www.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/~pinot/ ``Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.'' -- Donald E. Knuth, the TeXbook () ASCII ribbon campaign -- Against HTML e-mail /\ http://www.asciiribbon.org -- Against proprietary attachments
