From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 19 13:32:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA20264 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:32:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from konig.elte.hu (konig.elte.hu [157.181.6.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA20253 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:32:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sebesty@cs.elte.hu) Received: from neumann.cs.elte.hu (neumann [157.181.6.200]) by konig.elte.hu (8.8.3/8.7.3/7s) with ESMTP id WAA18285 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 22:32:59 +0100 Received: from localhost (sebesty@localhost) by neumann.cs.elte.hu (8.8.3/8.7.3/4c) with SMTP id WAA29736 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 22:32:44 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: neumann.cs.elte.hu: sebesty owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 22:32:44 +0100 (MET) From: Zoltan Sebestyen cc: FreeBSD questions mailinglist Subject: Re: Zip drives horrendously slow In-Reply-To: <199712191834.MAA14113@horton.iaces.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Did you mean ZIP drives with dosfs? Becaus on FreeBSD reading forom a ZIP disk with dosfs is DAMN slow indeed. Since I use vmount instead of BSD's msdos implementation, it's MUCH faster. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sebestyen Zoltan It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up. szoli@digo.inf..elte.hu But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid? MAKE INSTALL NOT WAR