> > On windows, formated as FAT32, the copy of 1,2 GB took
> > about 6 minutes, so it's about 3.41 MB/s, that's more than USB1.1 speed
> > (I think) but in OpenBSD 4.4 I have 1.5 MB/s speed. I will attach dmesg
> > as soon as possible.
> 
> for many devices 1.5 MB/s is already USB2.  e.g. my mp3 player.
> 
> i am not familiar with the windows caching mechanism but it
> might be finishing up the copying after the progress bar has
> already finished.  linux plays that ugly game.  everything
> is copied lightningly fast only to discover that umount takes
> minutes until the caches is written out in the real world.

Unix has had write-behind for decades.

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