Removable USB device very slow

[John]

Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Olivier wrote:
> 
>>	When my USB disk is plugged it is automatically mounted by HAL. But the
>>disk is mount with the sync option :
> 
> 
> I don't think removing the 'sync' option will speed it up much---USB is very
> slow (<1MB/second).

hdparm shows 20 Mbytes/sec on my USB2 drive. Running Linux of a plugin 
USB drive is a realistic option, at least for emergencies.

I expect sync is there to save twits from themselves.