Staples "Relay (tm)" 4 Gb USB sticks - slow or normal (lenny)?
I keep one copy of my latest backup on usb sticks that I keep in my
pack.  Yesterday, I recreated it.  It's an ext2 ptn:
   /dev/sdb1 on /media/usb0 type ext2 (rw,noexec,nodev,sync,noatime)
That happens when I plug it in (udev?).
   drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2009-05-20 22:55 /media/sdb1/
I plugged it in at 17:13, started the copy minutes later, and it took
until 03:43 to finish, which is pretty sucky.  CD copies take like ten
minutes.
(0) infidel /home/keeling_ du -sm /scratch/afio/
637     /scratch/afio/
Is it just that usb's slow, or is the box doing it wrong?  Is it my
preference for ext2?  I've tried w both usb hubs and directly into
laptop; same, same.
This's on a HP Pavilion dv4 AMD-64.
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