On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:28:58 -0400
Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> dijo:

>If you are running ubuntu LTS not the latest incarnation - download the
>latest ISO boot from it to liveOS (they call it Try Ubuntu) - use that
>to format with exFat - hopefully that is new enough to support exFat
>without hassle.

I had been a bit lazy about updates, so I let Ubuntu do its thing
today, which included a new kernel. According to uname it is now
5.4.0-72-generic #80-Ubuntu.

The updated kernel definitely made changes to the way exFAT works. I
used to get instant file transfers half the time, now every single
write activity takes two to five *minutes*. I can't believe Ubuntu
released this disaster.

I can't even get anything done. This is ridiculous. I'm going to have
to nuke exFAT on this USB stick. At the moment I'm using it only for
small audio files, but I want to move them to my phone, so ext* won't
work. I'll just format it FAT32.

OK, it's not possible that Ubuntu did this. There must be something
about my computer that is causing the problem. I thought it might be
the GUI file manager, but I have four installed and it happens with all
of them, and with the command line as well.

What a PITA.

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