The problem with USB stick and msdosfs

Hasso Tepper hasso at estpak.ee
Fri Jan 16 12:55:38 PST 2009


da0: <pqi IntelligentStick 0.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 963MB (1974271 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 963C)

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file bs=512k count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
52428800 bytes transferred in 1.744845 secs (30047824 bytes/sec)
$ time sudo umount /mnt
real    4m7.152s 	<- ?!?!?! 
user    0m0.008s
sys     0m0.047s
$

It doesn't happen with any other OS (tried Debian, MacOSX and Windows XP) 
and there is no problem in DragonFly with the very same formatted to UFS 
either.


-- 
Hasso Tepper





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