Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Dan Ritter wrote:
...
> There are situations in which it can take much longer than a few
> seconds. They require a large amount of data to write and a slow
> storage mechanism.
>
> Specific example: recursive copying of music files to my USB-2
> attached music player, which has an actual write speed of about
> 20 MB per second. The cp -r or rsync of a few gigabytes can
> return well before the data is actually written.

  i have a pretty large io buffer so when i copy some big files
and then sync it may take as long as 30 or more seconds even 
with a decent SSD.


  songbird