On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 13:02 +0200, Hauser, Wolfgang (external) wrote: > We played arround a bit, the raw writing speed is acceptable (dd > if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4k count=1000 -> 525 kbit/s). > It seems it is the filesystem which makes the problems, I now try to > allign the FAT32 on the USB-Stick and see what's happen.
It is possibly mounted with the "sync" option on, which causes every write to the filesystem to be flushed to the physical device immediately. This allows for less chance of data loss if you remove the device without unmounting it, but it usually causes a huge drop in write performance. Jesse _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-devel mailing list Angstrom-distro-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-devel
