Hasso Tepper wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: >> I'm guessing it is a function of msdosfs, which doesn't try to >> aggregate clusterable writes. Linux's block devices work >> differently, it's easier for linux to cluster writes. Not really on my >> list, non-native filesystems aren't really designed with performance in >> mind. > > 50MB in 4 minutes isn't really "a performance problem" IMHO, but a serious > usability problem ;). And I doubt that the lack of clustering is the one > to blame here (at least not alone). And as I said - it isn't the problem > with every USB mass storage media, with other stuff I have access to show > reasonable performance with msdosfs.
I've noticed that writes to msdosfs always used 4kb blocks. That's probably a clustering problem then. cheers simon
