VFAT slowdowns under 2.0.x
Peter McLachlan (pmclachl@overseer.viknet.lakefieldcs.on.ca)
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 21:01:22 -0500 (EST)
I've been getting some very strange behaviour when mounting and using my
vfat partition under the 2.0.x kernels. (I've tried with x.30, 31, 32.)
Basically, it just runs painfully slow. Simply doing an 'ls' of a
relatively small directory may take a matter of minutes!
The drive isn't really working when its reading from the vfat partition...
it barely makes any noise, and the drive light only flicks on now and
again.
I'm running a single 4.3GB IBM EIDE drive on a Dual P166 machine.
I've been running on 2.1.64 for a couple months now, and vfat access is
practically instantaneous. The strange thing is, I don't recall my vfat
drive being THAT slow before before I switched. So, perhaps a system
setting has changed? I'm not sure what it could be though. Any
pointers would be much appreciated.
Peter McLachlan
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