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On 1/16/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 10:46 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: |
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> > Are you mounting with the "sync" option, or no? Try it with, and |
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> > without. If you do it without, time what it takes to do the copy, and |
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> > unmount. unmount will do the actual sync. |
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> hey, that sped it up heaps! |
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> $ sudo mount -t vfat -o uid=iain,gid=users,async /dev/sdd6 /mnt/tmp/ |
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> $ time { cp /usr/portage/distfiles/OOo_2.0.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz /mnt/tmp/; sudo umount /mnt/tmp/; } |
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> real 0m11.134s |
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> thats a huge increase (11s instead of 81s!), so how come hdparm still |
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> reports 9MB/s? |
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> > I've noticed that linux in generall is extremely slow with USB devices |
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> > sometimes. My external USB2 (ATA 100) drive gets 27M/sec on my |
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> > machine. And with a relatively new driver, you should see speeds |
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> > about like that. |
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> Is that calculating the times yourself, or with hdparm? |
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Yes, calculating myself. And I don't know why hdparm would report |
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that other time. |
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> thanks, |
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> Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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> I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. |
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> -- Groucho Marx |
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