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gvfs package

  1. Bug #197762
  2. Comment #198

Comment 198 for bug 197762

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Luis Lobo (luislobo) wrote : Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

I had this problem, and after reading all this comments, i decided to give it a try to the reconfiguration of fstab

I went from 4 MB to a steady 30MB (this is the REAL max throughput of a USB device in USB 2.0)

It worked perfectly. Also, setting my SATA Ports to use 32 bit and it made it a little better.

Setting "noatime,nodiratime" to the mount options in /etc/fstab solves the problem for me atleast

Ubuntu 64 here:
Linux lap-lub-lnx 2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:53:52 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
hardware: Intel Core 2 Duo (Centrino 2)