Re: VFAT slowdowns under 2.0.x
Gordon Chaffee (chaffee@CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:55:30 -0800 (PST)
Peter McLachlan writes:
> I've been getting some very strange behaviour when mounting and using my
> vfat partition under the 2.0.x kernels. (I've tried with x.30, 31, 32.)
> Basically, it just runs painfully slow. Simply doing an 'ls' of a
> relatively small directory may take a matter of minutes!
That is pretty bad. While large directories under 2.0.x caused some
problems, you shouldn't be seeing anything along these lines. There
isn't anything that has changed in vfat that would cause you to be
seeing these problems.
- Gordon