Re: [SOLVED] USB Storage speed regression since 2.6.12

2005-09-01 Thread DervishD
Hi Mark :) * Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > >the new implementation seems to rewrite the fat on every single > >write (that's the reason of the slowdown, probably), and since I'm > >not sure about the quality of the flash memory present in the > >device, it is very probable that it wo

Re: [SOLVED] USB Storage speed regression since 2.6.12

2005-09-01 Thread Mark Lord
DervishD wrote: .. the new implementation seems to rewrite the fat on every single write (that's the reason of the slowdown, probably), and since I'm not sure about the quality of the flash memory present in the device, it is very probable that it would wear the first sectors :( So I have to moun

[SOLVED] USB Storage speed regression since 2.6.12

2005-09-01 Thread DervishD
Hi Brice, again :) * Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > Are you mounting this storage with vfat and 'sync' option ? > IIRC, sync support for vfat was added around 2.6.12, making > write way slower since it's now really synchron. That seems to be the problem. Mounting without 'sync