Re: vfat <-> vfat copying of ~700MB file, so slow!

From: Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 15:53:51 EST

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> Copying between vfat <-> vfat partitions is so slow. It seems
> that it's vfat/msdos kernel driver problem because I tried to copy

I reported this years ago, with a 700 kB file on a floppy and
a 4 MB file on a Zip disk. In both cases mcopy was several times
faster than the kernel code.
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