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Hang time when accessing vfat mount point
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| I'm running the latest kernal on RH9 but I've noticed this for quite
some time on older versions. When I mount a Vfat partition and then
drill down into the filesystem Linux seems to hang for quite some time.
If I'm playing music using XMMS it will stop or skip wildly until the
update to Nautilus takes place. I'm mounting the partition at startup
and leaving the directory open on my desktop which doesn't seem to cause
any issue (speed wise). Only if I close it and try to open the
/mnt/dir and then drill further down.
I'm looking into /my documents/my music which has a couple hundred
..mp3's if that makes a difference.
Any idea's?
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GregS
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| GregS wrote:quote:
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> If I'm playing music using XMMS it will stop or skip wildly until the
> update to Nautilus takes place. I'm mounting the partition at startup
> and leaving the directory open on my desktop which doesn't seem to cause
> any issue (speed wise). Only if I close it and try to open the /mnt/dir
> and then drill further down.
I know that it's odd to add to your own post, but I've tried a few other
things that might help shed some light on this.
I loaded an rpm with support for read only mounting of NTFS volumes and
can mount and drill into larger directories (i.e. more files) without
any problems. Since I had been mounting the vfat partition as r/w, I
tried it as read only but the issue remains.
Mounting NTFS seems to get me around the problem but I would have
thought that vfat has been around so long and is quite a bit simpler in
comparison that I would haven't been the only one to see this.
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| GregS wrote:quote:
> GregS wrote:
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> I know that it's odd to add to your own post, but I've tried a few other
> things that might help shed some light on this.
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> I loaded an rpm with support for read only mounting of NTFS volumes and
> can mount and drill into larger directories (i.e. more files) without
> any problems. Since I had been mounting the vfat partition as r/w, I
> tried it as read only but the issue remains.
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> Mounting NTFS seems to get me around the problem but I would have
> thought that vfat has been around so long and is quite a bit simpler in
> comparison that I would haven't been the only one to see this.
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Problem was solved by finding what appeared as a "corrupt icon" file
"invalid unicode" which was listed on the the same level as
/mnt/windisk/My Music. Whenever I hit that directory level the O/S would
just hang for quite awhile and then would come back and run OK. As soon
as I trashed that file, runs as expected now. Interesting that as long
as the desktop had it left open on login that the issue didn't crop up.
Must have been tied to refreshing the GUI window only.
I'm not sure how the corrupt icon got there though. I suspect that it
was put there by the Mac O/S (ver.9.x) while using "Dave" to get at the
volume. Once bitten, I'll know what to look for next time.
Hope it helps someone else to know the resolve.
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GregS
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