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gvfs package

  1. Bug #197762
  2. Comment #77

Comment 77 for bug 197762

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Vinicius Seixas (vipseixas) wrote : Re: file transfers on USB disk are very slow

> This seems to be a duplicate of bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/119730/comments/82 And has nothing to do
> with usb transferrates but rather sata/harddisk transferrates. Setting "noatime,nodiratime" to the mount options in /etc/fstab solves the
> problem for me atleast.

noatime & nodiratime will not make any noticeable difference for the transfer of just 1 big file, and a lot of people here reported that symptom... Besides that the problem arises with non-ext volumes too.

I don't know if is just coincidence or luck, but I had this problem with my 64 bits system, I reinstalled Ubuntu and replaced with the 32 bits version and the problem is gone... Now I can achieve stable 10+ MB/s with my pen drive and 20+ MB/s with my usb sata disk.

Just in case it is useful:

$ uname -a
Linux vs-note 2.6.27-10-generic #1 SMP Fri Nov 21 12:00:22 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux