On Wednesday 23 August 2006 12:00, Mark Harris wrote:
My WD extrnal usb drive automounts fine; however, the disk access is painfully slow... even for read only.
Yes, I have read the release notes and I have tried the work-around for slow usb hotplug... it does not work.
If I umount the drive and manually mount it with :
mount -t reiserfs /def/sda1 /mnt/WD_External -o rw,nodev,nosuid,sync
... then it works wonderfully... nice and fast...
What is wrong with automount usbfs, and how do I correct it. At the moment I have placed a 20thirdparty file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty to prevent this volume.uuid from auto-mounting by setting should_mount to false. Then I mount it manually.
This machine is my laptop. The usb drive is a 60GB external that I use mainly for read-only reference database. I am running Suse 10 on this machine.
What is the solution to this problem? By the way, mounting without sync does not fix the problem.
Thanks
I do something similar, but since my use dated to the days when auto-mount could not be counted on, I just put an entry in fstab with the mount point and options I wanted, and allowed "user" to mount. Then I can open up KdiskFree and right click to mount/unmount. Mostly I do this on Suse 9.3, but yesterday I plugged that drive into this 10.1 box and it did mount, but it was slow as you saw. Added the line to fstab and it was much better. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen