Re: Large USB storage devices cause df to hang and cpu load reaches 100%
Alan Stern <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usb.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Sergey Vlasov wrote: > > 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. Yes, that sounds right. We can consider this problem solved. :-) Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel