Re: [gentoo-user] usb1 performance out of usb2 external HD

[Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@gmail.com>]

On 1/16/06, b.n. <brullonulla@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if we should be reporting this to the kernel guys.  I
> > see this on *all* linux systems with kernel 2.6, but I'm not sure
> > about 2.4.  But, I think I'll try enabling some options that Richard
> > mentioned first.
>
> Kernel guys know it very well. They recently implemented the sync option
> for FAT filesystems, and this is turned on by default.
>
> Unluckly, sync is really OK for FAT partitions on an HD, but not for USB
> devices. I hope they will realize soon that not only it degrades
> performance of USB drives, but it also wears out flash memories really fast.

Actually, that's a good point.  All that writing to the FAT would use
those flash blocks a lot, which would indeed wear it out.

Windows does sync by default as well.  But, it's sync is extremely
fast for some reason.

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