On 28/10/2007, Mario Goebbels <me at tomservo.cc> wrote: > I've downloaded a large file today and needed to move it to my Windows > partition. Since it's NTFS, no available FAT32 partitions and mkisofs for > some reason messing up the ISO it's supposed to create, I've figured to use > my USB stick. > > The thing is, it took almost 30 minutes to copy 2 gigabytes, but under > Windows, it copied them back to the disk in under two minutes. As there isn't > such a crass difference of 14:1 between reads and writes on flash drives, I'm > assuming that the ports are set to USB 1.1 (speeds) or something under > Solaris, explaining the really low performance. > > To be sure however, I have to find out, so I can file a bug report about this.
This is already a known issue. fat32 under Solaris currently need a lot of work done to it; unfortunately Sun's customers have not sufficiently escalated it as a priority for fixing so resources have been allocated elsewhere. However, since it is open source, a community member can certainly step up to fix the issues. There are already several open bugs that should cover the issue you describe. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
