DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It would add the limitation to following simple usage, >> >> # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt >> # cp -a * /mnt >> # umount >> >> if /dev/sda1 was the large and slow device, "mount" will need several >> minutes to counts free clusters. I think the user will be hard to >> accept the several minutes at "mount". > > I can carry some tests, but if Windows does that tasks lightning > fast, Linux surely does it faster ;) I don't think, anyway, that having > a huge USB disk is a common practice when using "modest" machines. > > If you want, I can perform a couple of tests. I have a 80GB disk > that I can connect using an USB adapter and my machine is AMD Athlon XP > 1900+ with 1GB of RAM, which looks pretty slow nowadays O:)
Yes, I think it's not common practice too. But I don't see why do you want to scanning at the mount. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
