Marcel Hilzinger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 11:41 schrieb Danny Kukawka: > > On Wednesday 15 February 2006 00:44, Thomas Hertweck wrote: > > > Have you ever measured the performance of the external hard drive? I > > > have an external USB 2.0 hard drive with 300GB for private backup > > > purpose. If this disk is mounted with standard settings on a SUSE 10.0 > > > box which supports USB 2.0, I end up with a very very poor performance > > > and backups take a very long time. If I mount the same hard drive > > > manually (and avoid therefore the sync-option), I can easily backup more > > > than 10 times as much data as before in the same time. > > > > But this has nothing to do with subfs or with automounting. This is a > > problem in general with the sync option and you could configure this. > > Right.
Wrong! ;-) A agree that the performance loss is due to the sync option, not due to subfs or automounting. However, as this is a *default* setting when using the auotmounter and subfs in, e.g., SUSE 10, it is from my point of view clearly related to those "features" and affects all users of a SUSE 10 with, e.g., external USB storage. Of course, I can use async option (I am using that anyway because I do not use automounting on my SUSE 10 box), but having default settings that lead to very poor performance is - again from my point of view - not such a good idea... This led to my question how the situation will be handled in future. There will be an automounter in future SUSE releases, and it will be enabled by default (that's what I expect). Does that mean a "normal" SUSE user who just wants to use his system without fiddling with cryptic XML files has to suffer from the poor performance problem due to the sync option? Do yo think this is the right way to go? Or is there any solution to this...? I hope that clarifies my initial question a bit. Cheers, Th. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
