-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-03-04 at 21:32 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
In SUSE 9.3 writing to a USB flash drive, again, sync or no sync, was a lot quicker.
The weird thing is, if I put a normal IDE drive in an external USB enclosure, and plug that in, I can write at 26mb/s while it is mounted sync.
So why is it different for flash drives? What broke between 9.3 and 10.0?
If that is so, and is measurable, then there probably is a kernel problem somewhere. In my experience, nosync is faster simply because the kernel can delay and optimize the order of writing to a device. It is very effective on external zip drives, for instance. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFECjTLtTMYHG2NR9URAhN+AJ94a2HWh2ffXnvb2a/p4XUe59j78QCdGhoi UGwnj1x4NELlcNJ60uuAoUs= =1AVT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----