Re: USB: KDE faster than GNOME faster than TERMINAL ??!!

[Christophe Combelles <ccomb@free.fr>]

it is already mouted with sync, see the fstab line:
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/IntelligentStick auto 
sync,user,noauto,rw,iocharset=utf8 0 0

When KDE has finished copying the file, unmounting can be done with no delay. 
The file is really copied.

edward@murrell.co.nz wrote:
> I believe the problem is to do with synchronos  writing to the device. It
> probably means that KDE is reporting the time for the drive to report that
> it has copied files. Try adding sync to the fstab, and then see what
> happens.
> Edward
>
>
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:01:14PM +0100, Christophe Combelles wrote:
> >
> > > Something very strange :
> > >
> > > I have done a test with a small USB1 memory key (i-stick).
> > >
> > > I copy a 1.9 MB file from the hard drive to the USB mass storage
> > > device, with three different methods:
> > >
> > > 1) from KDE with Konqueror : 7s  (~280 ko/s)
> > > 2) from Gnome with Nautilus: 30s (~60 ko/s)
> > > 3) from the console with cp: 50s (~40 ko/s)
> > >
> > > The correct speed is done when using KDE, the other two are very very
> > > slow. Does anybody has already seen this ???
> >
> > Its to do with blocksize. Try 'time dd if=1.9_file of=/usbhdd/out
> > obs=xxxx' Vary xxxx over 2**n : 8 <= n <= 16. On my usb key ~3000 was
> > optimum. YMMV. Unforunatly vfat(at least my version) doesn't support
> > blocksize as an option.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
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