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Michal Kurgan napsal(a): |
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> Recently i spotted that my usb flash memory work very slow, about 5kB/s on |
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> write. On internet search i discover that it's problem with new kernel |
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> (2.6.12) and "sync" mount option, that is now correctly(?) respected by fat |
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> filesystem. |
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> This is my case, but i want to have sth like sync when using removable |
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> devices, is there any option to do this? I much prefer that i see that sth is |
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> copied, not only then when i will try unmount device (in this case i don't |
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> know if there are any problems, earlier with sync i saw transfer rate, and |
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> this is what i want) |
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This behaviour is caused by change in the vfat driver. It now respects |
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the sync option and the slow speed is caused by frequent updating of the |
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FAT table. Some info can be found here: |
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http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/22/111748.html |
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The only solution seem to be to use the async option. |
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Miroslav Flídr |
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