Re: Extremely poor umass transfer rates

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

On 04.28, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:55:40PM +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> > The line that 'hald' puts in fstab looks like this:
> > 
> > 	/dev/sdb /media/usbdisk vfat \
> > 		user,exec,noauto,utf8,noatime,sync,managed 0 0
> 
>  Are you sure it's correct? I can't even mount with those options:
> 
> #v+
> # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/other -t vfat -o user,exec,noauto,utf8,noatime,sync,managed 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> # dmesg | tail -2 
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> FAT: Unrecognized mount option "managed" or missing value
> #v-
> 
>  Omitting "managed" seems to work. But it's slooow:
> 
> # dd if=/dev/zero  bs=1M count=100 | pv > /mnt/other/100MB
> 1,17MB 0:00:28 [41,7kB/s] [      <=>                ]
> 
> It stays at about 40 kB/s during all transfer. 
> Reading is as fast as it should be = about 18 MB/s (after umount, mount
> again, to clear cache). 
> 

Je, je, you're dreaming. The limit on pendrives, flash mp3 players and so
on is the flash memory read/write speed. You are lucky if you get 1Mb/s.
So for a flash based device, dont ever worry about if it is USB 1.1 or 2.0.
Things are different if you have a disk based device (iPod, iPod mini).
A disk is a disk.

The difference in total time should be minimal between sync and async mounts,
if you take into account filesystem sync/umount time.

Anyways, your 40 Kb/sec seem too sloow. But dont expect your 19Mb/s, only
about 1Mb/s (reading, writing thigs drop to 600Kb/s).

by

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