Bug 128627

Summary:	Data transfer from and to USB keys is very slow
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Olaf Hering <ohering>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Alberto Passalacqua 2005-10-16 20:16:03 UTC

Data transfer from and to USB keys is very slow. It takes about 2 hours to
transfer 130 MB on a USB 2 key. It works a lot quicker in SuSE 9.3.

Comment 1 Olaf Hering 2005-10-17 11:49:20 UTC

when you access the disk, look into /proc/mounts for the sync option:

grep -w sync /proc/mounts

Comment 2 Sebastien ROHAUT 2005-10-17 14:03:51 UTC

this is related to bug #105871 

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=105871

We are all waiting for a patch to the Sync option for VFAT...

Comment 3 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2005-10-17 16:43:42 UTC

What kind of patch are you expecting?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105871 ***

Comment 4 Sebastien ROHAUT 2005-10-18 06:37:26 UTC

A patch to resolve this sync problem, of course ! The hack explained in bug #105871 (for hal) works, but doesn't really corrects the problem : sync option was very fast in Suse 9.3, and extremely, very extremly slow on Suse 10.0 ...

Comment 5 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2005-10-19 22:26:06 UTC

There is not going to be a kernel patch, this is an upstream kernel change 
to actually add support for sync to this filesystem.  The reason it was
so fast is that it wasn't doing anything :)