On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Alex Yu wrote: > yes, but even with sync it should not be that slow. with other flash > drives I get 2+MB/s. > the main reason I started mounting it with sync was because of the > slow writing: unmounting would take forever. If you want to see where the time is going, use usbmon to monitor what happens during a test (see Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt for instructions). You might also want to do the same thing with one of the other flash drives, for comparison. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html