After I got my ybercool home media server ready it was time to start using it properly. Which, for a sad reason, also meant that I had to occasionally copy some of my media to USB stick, to enjoy it also on my bedroom TV which is not connected to the network.
At some point I noticed that moving 1.4GB data from server hard drive to usb flash drive took like an hour. Not good at all. Although I clearly wasn’t alone with this problem, I still didn’t find a quick solution.
At least until I noticed this in my syslog:
Mar 28 19:03:16 arwen usbmount[6761]: executing command:
mount -tvfat -osync,noexec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,dmask=000,fmask=111 /dev/sdc1 /data/usb
usbmount is a nice package that
automatically mounts your usb drive when you plug it in. It also has a
configuration file in /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf and there is that:
# WARNING!
#
# The "sync" option may not be a good choice to use with flash
# drives, as it forces a greater amount of writing operating
# on the drive. This makes the writing speed considerably lower
# and also leads to a faster wear out of the disk.
...
MOUNTOPTIONS="sync,noexec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime"
Remove sync option and be careful with your drives (: