Moving files from ext2 to FAT32 under FC3 is VERY slow!

Serge de Souza serge at cs.curtin.edu.au
Tue Dec 14 12:00:39 UTC 2004


Amit Rana wrote:
> When I upgraded to FC3 (2.6.9-1.667) EVERYTHING (including copying
> files between partitions etc) was SLOWWW, tried everything to figure
> out the problem with no success. Yesterday upgraded the kernel to
> 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 now everything is GOOD.
> 
> I am still not sure what was the problem but you might want to try it.
> 

There is a speed penalty associated with SELinux, I think the latest 
kernel that you mentioned has reduced this penalty. I don't have the 
link at hand but should not be too hard to find.

Serge




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