Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.



On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:27:01AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
I needed to reload the flash drive on a Zenstone 2-gig mp3
player. I have noticed that when the drive is full, operations
all still work, but take much longer than one might expect which
probably has something to do with the fat32 file system and size
of the FAT table.

[snip]

I plan to let this tar command run its natural course to see
what happens, but is there anything I can do with the existing
system to optimise the performance?

I usually load my usb stick with async and have found this to improve
performance greatly, but you must use sync to flush the buffers



Thanks.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group


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