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Originally Posted by johnR
Just to add some info to this thread, I tried copying a couple of GB from OpenBSD to an ext2fs formatted USB stick (using cp). It was quite a bit slower than copying to the same stick from Linux on the same hardware.
After formatting the stick to FFS the copy speed was back up to what I'd normally expect. It appears that copying to a non-native file system is slow.
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Sorry for the very late reply.
Yes that is what I found. It copies from OpenBSD to non-native file systems at about 1 Mb per second even on hard drives. So I decided not to use the OpenBSD file system for long term storage of big files.