On 1/16/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 10:46 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: > > Are you mounting with the "sync" option, or no? Try it with, and > > without. If you do it without, time what it takes to do the copy, and > > unmount. unmount will do the actual sync. > > hey, that sped it up heaps! > > $ sudo mount -t vfat -o uid=iain,gid=users,async /dev/sdd6 /mnt/tmp/ > $ time { cp /usr/portage/distfiles/OOo_2.0.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz > /mnt/tmp/; sudo umount /mnt/tmp/; } > > real 0m11.134s > > thats a huge increase (11s instead of 81s!), so how come hdparm still > reports 9MB/s?
I'm wondering if we should be reporting this to the kernel guys. I see this on *all* linux systems with kernel 2.6, but I'm not sure about 2.4. But, I think I'll try enabling some options that Richard mentioned first. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list