From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 06:01:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 06:01:01 -0500 Received: from [194.213.32.137] ([194.213.32.137]:38916 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 06:00:27 -0500 Message-ID: <20010126184137.C260@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:41:37 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: "Albert D. Cahalan" , Arkadiusz Miskiewicz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: vfat <-> vfat copying of ~700MB file, so slow! In-Reply-To: <20010124131431.A19957@ikar.t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl> <200101242053.f0OKrps154856@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <200101242053.f0OKrps154856@saturn.cs.uml.edu>; from Albert D. Cahalan on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:53:51PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > Copying between vfat <-> vfat partitions is so slow. It seems > > that it's vfat/msdos kernel driver problem because I tried to copy > > I reported this years ago, with a 700 kB file on a floppy and > a 4 MB file on a Zip disk. In both cases mcopy was several times > faster than the kernel code. Perhaps linear scan of FAT? Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/