On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Marc Schiffbauer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have an usb-storage device in my Computer hat can handle several
> memory-cards like CF, SD, MMC, MS and SM Cards.
> 
> I often read/write to my 1 gig SD card (USB 2.0). Reading is always
> fast (~ 5MB/s) using Kernel 2.6.12 or 2.6.13.
> 
> But: Writing to the card is very very slow: < 40 kb/s.
> 
>   My kubuntu system mounts that kind of devices like that:
>   /dev/sda1 on /media/sda1 type vfat
>   
> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,quiet,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
> 
> Now I discovered that if I do a "mount -o remount,async /meda/sda1",
> the writing speed increases to a normal value of about 5 megs/s.
> 
> I remember, that the problem did not exist with earlier kernels
> (and this version of kubuntu)
> 
> I think this might be a kernel bug introduced by some patch applied before
> 2.6.12.

It's not a bug; it's deliberate.  :-)

See this bug report:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4882

Alan Stern



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