Remember that the flash memory in USB sticks have a very very low access time but have a really low sustained data rate. So the advantage you get from the low access time cancels out by it's low data rate.
Glenn Michel Di Croci wrote: > I repeat myself... it's really slow right now. I don't understand why > but it's a lot slower than a normal HD. Maybe I've done something wrong > but in the long term, I think last proposes something better. When it > starts writing or reading for a long period, I can wait easily 30 secs > to get the OS responding to other queries. > > Installing something and running df -h to know if I still have some left > spaces. Thoses 2 requests could not be performed at the same time. > > michel > > On 1/17/07, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Yes! Please! Me Too! > > If you had time to describe the tweaks a bit that would be great .. > > Michael > > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Michel Di Croci wrote: > > > Alpha2 release (downloaded it yesterday) > > > > I can provide a guide for it if you are interested. The important > part was > > to modify the mkinitcpio to have the usb hooks. > > > > Michel > > > > On 1/17/07, Israel Junior < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > >> > >> On 1/17/07, Michel Di Croci <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > >> > Hello! > >> > > >> > I installed arch linux completely on a usb key. I had to > tweak the > >> installer > >> > since he didn't view the /dev/sda disk as a hard drive disk > but that was > >> the > >> > only modification I had to do in the code. For the rest, it > is working > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > arch@archlinux.org <mailto:arch@archlinux.org> > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > <http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > arch@archlinux.org > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
