Monster IDE Drives

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.8K blaze of typing glory, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> >>By "directory fiddling", you mean disk seek time, right?
> >
> >
> >Probably. But it is communication with the disk of other than actual file
> >content. I would imagine that the disk would also seek when writing data. 
> >So
> >it is more than that. Could in fact only be a firewire driver thing on 
> >Linux
> >and not the disk at all.
> 
> "Directory fiddling" can be really slow. Last night I was moving some 
> stuff via a USB 1.1 pocket drive. I did 'mkdir foo'. The command prompt 
> didn't return for a *full minute*. Thought I was gonna have a coronary. 
> It's a VFAT volume which may explain some of it.

Holy delayed write, Batman! VFAT sucks and all that, but I've never
heard of a simple directory creation taking a minute (unless there
were some serious disk writes going on elsewhere on the system or 
the drive itself was about to push up weeds.

Kurt
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