> 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?
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