Re: [gentoo-user] why is writing to an async-mounted USB disk so slow?

2019-11-03 Thread Dale
Thomas Mueller wrote: >> Mick has a good point.  I have two or three of the cheaper USB external >> enclosures and only one of them was somewhat fast, it is USB 2.0 after >> all.  The other two logged a lot of errors in messages file about >> resetting something.  It was resetting so often that

Re: [gentoo-user] why is writing to an async-mounted USB disk so slow?

2019-11-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Mick has a good point.  I have two or three of the cheaper USB external > enclosures and only one of them was somewhat fast, it is USB 2.0 after > all.  The other two logged a lot of errors in messages file about > resetting something.  It was resetting so often that moving data to or > from

Re: [gentoo-user] why is writing to an async-mounted USB disk so slow?

2019-11-02 Thread Dale
n952162 wrote: > Okay, thank you, I'll try that (in (33 - 24) hours ;-) ) > > > On 11/02/19 16:40, Mick wrote: >> On Saturday, 2 November 2019 15:15:31 GMT n952162 wrote: >>> I'm getting 13k bps writing to a Toshiba 3T drive over a USB/Sata >>> connection.  It' take 33 hours to transfer a 200meg

Re: [gentoo-user] why is writing to an async-mounted USB disk so slow?

2019-11-02 Thread n952162
Okay, thank you, I'll try that (in (33 - 24) hours ;-) ) On 11/02/19 16:40, Mick wrote: On Saturday, 2 November 2019 15:15:31 GMT n952162 wrote: I'm getting 13k bps writing to a Toshiba 3T drive over a USB/Sata connection. It' take 33 hours to transfer a 200meg file. I mounted it async but

Re: [gentoo-user] why is writing to an async-mounted USB disk so slow?

2019-11-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 2 November 2019 15:15:31 GMT n952162 wrote: > I'm getting 13k bps writing to a Toshiba 3T drive over a USB/Sata > connection. It' take 33 hours to transfer a 200meg file. > > I mounted it async but then see that ext4 ignores the async option on > mounts. > > What am I doing wrong?

[gentoo-user] why is writing to an async-mounted USB disk so slow?

2019-11-02 Thread n952162
I'm getting 13k bps writing to a Toshiba 3T drive over a USB/Sata connection.  It' take 33 hours to transfer a 200meg file. I mounted it async but then see that ext4 ignores the async option on mounts. What am I doing wrong?