msdosfs performance unbearable

[Norberto Meijome]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:47:24 +0100
Dominic Fandrey <LoN_Kamikaze at gmx.de> wrote:

> ufs:
> $ time -h tar -xf php_manual_en.tar.gz
> 	3.31s real		0.43s user		0.51s sys

I've seem something similar , in the past, on 6.2, when writing to my mobile phone's mini-SD card. 

what does gstat show? (in particular, is any device being used 100% ?, can u relate the slowness when it hits 100% ? do other disks other than your FAT disk become saturated too? )

cheers,
B 

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