Sunday, July 02, 2017

Re: ext2 or usb problem

On 2 July 2017 at 14:02, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> wrote:
>> On 2 July 2017 at 13:54, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> wrote:
>> >> This is not helpful. You insist that you know what is going on when I
>> >> was in front of the computer and you were not. File copying to an ext2
>> >> filesystem on a usb drive is 10x slower than to an ffs filesystem on
>> >> an internal sata drive mounted async (ext2 is async; apples to
>> >> apples). I know because I've measured it, including the time to sync.
>> >> The file in question was 1.5 GB. That copy should have taken 150
>> >> seconds or so at the rates I measured. The system sat there for two
>> >> hours, as I said in my message. And when I came back, it was making no
>> >> progress, as I also said in my message. I'm done discussing this. I've
>> >> reported what I found and offered to help debug it. My workaround is
>> >> simple: I will do these backup disk updates and anything else
>> >> involving ext2/usb disks with Linux.
>> >
>> > Then why all the angst?
>> >
>> > If you really wanted it fixed you have the src code. Yelling at people
>> > isn't helpful either, is it?
>>
>> If you consider this 'yelling', then you really need to consult a
>> dictionary. And you are a fine one to be lecturing anyone about
>> yelling.
>
> Look, you don't get to lecture developers who are trying to help.
>
> Please leave here.

Done.

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