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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Matthias Apitz <matthias.apitz@oclc.org>
Subject: Re: restore of file system into USB key terrible slow
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    I've had good luck mounting UFS -o async on USB keys for the purposes
    of doing bulk operations.  It still isn't the fastest thing in the
    world but it seems fast enough.

    Softupdates does a *lot* of tiny I/O's, try disabling it (I think
    mounting async disables softupdates automatically but I'm not sure).

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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