>> it was even async, which makes me curious about the install slowness. >> Could the card or the exact mount options be the cause of that?
Well, you already noticed the main difference; one is async, the other uses softdep. That should suggest a simple test you can make; untarring on a running system with async vs softdep... I have a feeling softdep may be faster in this case, but it has drawbacks too. > I suppose you use an CF-card with about x133 speed. I had the same problem. > After using a card with at least x233 speed I didn't have that problem when > untaring anymore. The speed rating by itself isn't very useful. The random-access write speed has the biggest effect when used on a computer and since it is hardly relevant to use with a camera, doesn't usually get mentioned. In particular look for cards which do multisector transfers (i.e. they /don't/ say "1-sector PIO" in the attach line in dmesg), e.g. almost all recent sandisk, some innodisk cards, and not many others. Also on the Alix systems note that there's a UDMA option you can enable in tinyBIOS that defaults to Off.
