USB Hard Drive Activity Slows down Host

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:43 -0400, Sean wrote:

> > I think there is quite a bit of CPU overhead in transferring
> > data through a USB controller.  Firewire might be more
> > efficient if it happens to work in the kernel version you
> > are using (there have been problems over the last year or so).
> 
> Wow!  It seems you've been enjoying GPL software for over a
> year at least!  The GPL software must be very wonderful
> for you to use it so much even though you hate its license.
> I guess the GPL must be doing something very right for you
> to put aside your personal convictions and use it regardless.
> 
> YAY for GPL software!!!!  Working as intended.

Sigh... except for the 6 months or so when firewire disk support
was so broken in the fedora kernels that I had to run the
drives on Windows or OSX.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174537

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  Les Mikesell
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