Comment 5 for bug 213995

i tried copying to a usb harddisk (ext3).
It starts fast, but slows down after about 70Mb, then stops, copies like 10mb, waits for 10 sec, etc.
cpu is 100%
it took like 5 min to copy 400Mb. (tried it several times, with different files)

2.6.24-17-generic