Re: Very slow write on flash drive in sync mode???

From: Tomasz Torcz
Date: Wed Sep 20 2006 - 15:14:11 EST


On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:58:05PM +0200, CIJOML wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use SanDisk cruzer Titanium 2 GB mounted as sync in fstab
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/cruzer_sync vfat user,noauto,sync
>
> When I use flash drive in sync mode, it writes on it only 64kB/s. When I
> umount it and mount it in not sync mode but do sync manually after it writes
> into memory, kernel writes on flash drive 11 MB/s!!! What is wrong in my
> configuration?

That's expected with sync vfat mount. Use other filesystem or async.

--
Tomasz Torcz "Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking
zdzichu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in the afternoon and evening." - Alan Cox

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