Loading onto USB devices: Any Developments?
I use SuSE 10 and XFCE4. I just loaded 16 MB onto a usb device and it took a very long time. I know that this is a bug that Novell is working on. How will it be made known when the fix has been produced? Is there any indication of progress in this matter? -- Best regards, djtuchler Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA
The data rate is slow because the default method is sync. I have mounted the disk drive via a mount command with fstab. The data transfer sped up really fast *cache) When I unmount the file, it flush the cache, but it was still faster than the synch transfer rate. Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
I use SuSE 10 and XFCE4. I just loaded 16 MB onto a usb device and it took a very long time. I know that this is a bug that Novell is working on. How will it be made known when the fix has been produced? Is there any indication of progress in this matter?
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Joseph Loo wrote:
The data rate is slow because the default method is sync. I have mounted the disk drive via a mount command with fstab. The data transfer sped up really fast *cache) When I unmount the file, it flush the cache, but it was still faster than the synch transfer rate.
Note that a Linux user on another list reported trashing a 1 Gb USB drive the first time he used it. The sync option combined with numerous directory updates was blamed. Myself, I'm rather partial to real drives: they're more capacious, they're faster and they're cheaper.
Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
I use SuSE 10 and XFCE4. I just loaded 16 MB onto a usb device and it took a very long time. I know that this is a bug that Novell is working on. How will it be made known when the fix has been produced? Is there any indication of progress in this matter?
I have 2 uses for the USB drives, backup for the system and loading mp3 files. Obviously, the system backup uses a real drive. As for the MP3 player, there is no alternative/ John Summerfield wrote:
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Joseph Loo wrote:
The data rate is slow because the default method is sync. I have mounted the disk drive via a mount command with fstab. The data transfer sped up really fast *cache) When I unmount the file, it flush the cache, but it was still faster than the synch transfer rate.
Note that a Linux user on another list reported trashing a 1 Gb USB drive the first time he used it. The sync option combined with numerous directory updates was blamed.
Myself, I'm rather partial to real drives: they're more capacious, they're faster and they're cheaper.
Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
I use SuSE 10 and XFCE4. I just loaded 16 MB onto a usb device and it took a very long time. I know that this is a bug that Novell is working on. How will it be made known when the fix has been produced? Is there any indication of progress in this matter?
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
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