Re: USB flash drives on FC3 are incredibly slow!

Bill Marcum wrote:
["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.setup.]
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:04:29 GMT, Charles Sullivan
<cwsulliv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have two small USB flash drives, 64 MB and 128 MB, normally used
for temporarily storing a few small files. Today I copied a dozen
files totaling 42 Megabytes to the 64 MB drive on my Fedora Core 3
box and was astounded to find it took around 45 Minutes. I tried
it with the 128 MB drive and the same job took 15 Minutes.

By comparison, the same copy job to the 128 MB drive under either
Windows XP or my old, slow Red Hat 9 box takes about 15-20 Seconds.

What could be wrong on the FC3 box to make it so slow? It's a
3 GHz Pentium 4 system with USB 2 ports. The Red Hat 9 box is only
a 450 MHz Pentium 2 system with USB 1 ports.

On the FC3 system, the flash drive automatically mounts when plugged
in and the entry: /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat
pamconsole,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8,noatime,sync,managed 0 0

appears in /etc/fstab.

Try removing 'sync' from the fstab line.

Ditto that suggestion.

.... but make sure you always umount the drive or issue the sync command
at the command line before you unplug it.
.