Tweet
Hello all 
When I mount a floppy disk or a usb mass storage device with the sync flag in /etc/fstab, writing is unbearably slow. I expected some performance hit, but not by an order of magnitude. I'm thinking maybe this could be a bug with vfat since both the usb drive and floppy use that file system instead of it being an inherent behavior. Any ideas on how to solve it?
When I mount a floppy disk or a usb mass storage device with the sync flag in /etc/fstab, writing is unbearably slow. I expected some performance hit, but not by an order of magnitude. I'm thinking maybe this could be a bug with vfat since both the usb drive and floppy use that file system instead of it being an inherent behavior. Any ideas on how to solve it?