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

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 12:41:37 EST


Hi!

> > 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.

Perhaps linear scan of FAT?
                                                                Pavel

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