Re: vfat <-> vfat copying of ~700MB file, so slow!
Thunder from the hill (thunder@ngforever.de)
Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:56:35 -0700
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
>
> On/Dnia Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:23:03PM -0600, Brad Felmey wrote/napisał(a)
> > > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
> >
> > hdparm -c1 /dev/hda, or are you running in 16-bit mode on purpose?
> no purpose. Setting this can only speed up all operations a bit but it doesn't
> change nothing in vfat <-> vfat copying. It still slows down while copying.
I noticed the kernel to increase cache and let the buffers break down during long file copies, it seems like this is the wrong way if only copying one large file. This also happens on SMB connections. I don't know if this info is useful.
Thunder
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