linux-kernel - Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

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Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:27:35 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	DervishD <lkml@...vishd.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Juergen Beisert <juergen127@...uzholzen.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

DervishD <lkml@...vishd.net> writes:

>> It would add the limitation to following simple usage,
>> 
>> 	# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
>>         # cp -a * /mnt
>>         # umount
>> 
>> if /dev/sda1 was the large and slow device, "mount" will need several
>> minutes to counts free clusters. I think the user will be hard to
>> accept the several minutes at "mount".
>
>     I can carry some tests, but if Windows does that tasks lightning
> fast, Linux surely does it faster ;) I don't think, anyway, that having
> a huge USB disk is a common practice when using "modest" machines.
>
>     If you want, I can perform a couple of tests. I have a 80GB disk
> that I can connect using an USB adapter and my machine is AMD Athlon XP
> 1900+ with 1GB of RAM, which looks pretty slow nowadays O:)

Yes, I think it's not common practice too. But I don't see why do you
want to scanning at the mount.

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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