Carlos, On Tuesday 18 January 2005 15:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2005-01-18 at 23:25 -0000, Stephen Boddy wrote:
Speed? When my system automounts it uses that sync option that means hopeless transfer rates. I measured the difference between synced and non-synced with my firewire HD, and the difference was something crazy like 16x as long with a synced mount! If someone knows a way to tune the automount parameters for individual devices, I'd be very pleased to know the details.
Actually, thinking about it, this is more to do with hotplug.
Well, a drive that can be hotplugged must be mounted sync, because the user may remove it anytime. That means the kernel can not buffer it and delay write operations... thus, it will be slow.
I thought we were talking about DVD-ROM drives? Such devices not written to, and hence the synchronous option imposes no performance penalty.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Randall Schulz