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  1. Bug #133567
  2. Comment #65

Comment 65 for bug 133567

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 133567] Re: nautilus hangs on accessing vfat drives - statfs() blocks for a long time

Hi Daniel,

Daniel R. [2007-10-09 16:30 -0000]:
> Expect for the next kernel releases (if everything goes well) a dramatic
> decrease in statfs() time (without "usefree" option).
>
> I have tested a patch from FAT maintainer (OGAWA Hirofumi) which reduces
> the time to about 6-8 seconds, in a 15 GByte partition (before it was 60
> seconds)

Thank you for the heads-up! It's too late for Gutsy, so we'll leave
the current workaround, but good to know that this will be fixed
properly in Hardy. Then we can revert the 'usefree by default' change
in gnome-mount.