Re: Large USB storage devices cause df to hang and cpu load reaches 100%

Kostas Peletidis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:14:40PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
>>
>>     
> [...]
>   
>>> Without "usefree" the vfat code in 2.6.22 will read the whole FAT
>>> to count free clusters on the filesystem.
>>>       
>> But reading the whole FAT is very different from reading the entire 
>> partition.
>>     
>
> Reading the entire 500GB in one minute?  I would really like to have
> such disk :)
>
> Most likely "every block" here really means "a large sequential read".
> Not sure what cluster size would be used for a 500GB FAT32 partition,
> but with 4KB clusters the FAT size would be about 500MB - reading it
> over USB could probably take about a minute.
>   
OK, this makes things clearer. Thanks Sergey :-)

Regards,
Kostas

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