The problem with USB stick and msdosfs

[Hasso Tepper]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> I'm guessing it is a function of msdosfs, which doesn't try to
> aggregate clusterable writes.  Linux's block devices work
> differently, it's easier for linux to cluster writes.  Not really on my
> list, non-native filesystems aren't really designed with performance in
> mind.

50MB in 4 minutes isn't really "a performance problem" IMHO, but a serious 
usability problem ;). And I doubt that the lack of clustering is the one 
to blame here (at least not alone). And as I said - it isn't the problem 
with every USB mass storage media, with other stuff I have access to show 
reasonable performance with msdosfs.


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Hasso Tepper