[MiNT] FATFS - strange things happening

["Adam Klobukowski" <atari@gabo.pl>]

Some introduction first:

I tried to depack some tarbals on a FATFS partition. Done, went for 
tea.

Back. System very unresponsive, still not finoished. CTRL-ALT-DEL.

Tried on ext2, it went much faster (aprox 10 minutes).

Few things about tarball: lots of files (1000+), most of them very 
small (biggest is 65KB, but most of them is less than KB), and all 
have long filenames.

So I tried copying from ext2 to fat partition (I want to use them 
with program that does not like case-sensitive filesystem). It is the 
same: after some time, computer is unresponsive.

Today, I made a final test: recompiled kernel from fresh sources, 
tried to copy it again cp * destdir -vr

Now, after w while (about 600-700 files done) it worked slower and 
slower, more and more time for each file. I had something other to 
do, so I left it for some time, and only looked on screen from time 
to time. I was supprised that after some more time, copying was 
normal speed.

Comparision: fat fs: about 40 mins, ext2: about 10mins.

You can download that tarball from
http://preferuje.luzik.pl/~adamk/gtk-stock_adam.tar.gz
and test it on your own.

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Adam Klobukowski
atari@gabo.pl