On 2 July 2017 at 13:54, Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote: >> This is not helpful. You insist that you know what is going on when I >> was in front of the computer and you were not. File copying to an ext2 >> filesystem on a usb drive is 10x slower than to an ffs filesystem on >> an internal sata drive mounted async (ext2 is async; apples to >> apples). I know because I've measured it, including the time to sync. >> The file in question was 1.5 GB. That copy should have taken 150 >> seconds or so at the rates I measured. The system sat there for two >> hours, as I said in my message. And when I came back, it was making no >> progress, as I also said in my message. I'm done discussing this. I've >> reported what I found and offered to help debug it. My workaround is >> simple: I will do these backup disk updates and anything else >> involving ext2/usb disks with Linux. > > Then why all the angst? > > If you really wanted it fixed you have the src code. Yelling at people > isn't helpful either, is it?
If you consider this 'yelling', then you really need to consult a dictionary. And you are a fine one to be lecturing anyone about yelling.