Slow Writing to Lexar Jump Drive

[Charlie McVeigh]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 17:33 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "CM" == Charlie McVeigh <cmcveigh at adelphia.net> writes:
> 
> CM> However when automounted on my FC3 desktop the write speed is
> CM> still 24 minutes to write the same 4.5 MB file.  Fast on Windows
> CM> slow on Fedora - any one have any suggestions?
> 
> It will be slow if mounted with the "sync" option.  Under FC3 this is
> the default; I hacked HAL to drop the "sync".  My hacked HAL packages
> are at http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/rpms/hal-nosync/
> 
> These packages also include the fix for the floppy mounting problem.
> 
>  - J<
> 
> 

Thanks for the responses so far.  The Jump Drive is being mounted with
the sync option.

Is it possible to change a configuration file to get the desired mount
without the sync option?   If I need to install the RPM's from the link
above do I install them all?

Thanks.