On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:09 PM, <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: > > > What I think is that the following might be quicker: > > - read the whole USB image (you need to do this once) > - mount the image using lofi > - copy the data > - unmount > - dd the image back to the flash drive. > > While you still use pcfs, it might be quicker, depending on how much > memory you have. > > I logged this bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6720764
Ages ago. I just did the dd test with an 8 MB block size and obtained about 16 MB/sec, so this (apparently) confirms the problem is related to pcfs, though in the past I also had bad performance using UFS.... -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20081116/bcb43d7c/attachment.html>
