[issue1231] The problem with USB stick and msdosfs

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Mon Jan 19 08:49:26 PST 2009


    Insofar as msdosfs goes the BIO's are done in msdos 'clusters',
    which I think are around 4K.

    USB flash sticks are one and two-chip solutions with virtually
    no buffering or smarts.  Trying to chase performance on these things
    is pointless.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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