I found it referenced in the openfiler forums. When looking through /etc/sysconfig/hwconf the only information I could find for the USB card was a 1.1 driver for it. So I installed OpenFiler on a system I know has USB 2.0 and had the same results. On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Brian Lawrence <blawrence at qwest.net> wrote: > That's very interesting. How did you learn this? > > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of James > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:42 AM > To: Donovan > Cc: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Anyone with openfiler experience > > After much research I finally found that OpenFiler only configures USB > devices at a 1.1 level and not 2.0 which is why the throughput is so low. If > I want to use USB drives I'll have to setup a standard Linux system and > share out the drives on it. > > Thanks everyone for your suggestions. > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Donovan <dniesen at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:58 PM, James <jucziz6 at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Over the years I have purchase a couple of the low cost USB NAS >>> solutions that Linksys has come out with. These units use an ARM >>> processor and a mini linux kernel. For the most part they work but, >>> they are slow and if I try to un-tar a file on the unit back to >>> itself it will lock up. I thought I'd move the drives to OpenFiler >>> and away from the ARM processor. I setup OpenFiler, configured it >>> with a multiport USB card and connected a new drive to it. Then I >>> started moving files to it, the performance was below the charts. The >>> ARM units were typically twice as fast as OpenFiler. The OpenFiler >>> system was practically idle from what I could see in top, accessing the > drive from the system had some issues as well. >>> >>> Does anyone have any experience with OpenFiler and USB drives or >>> performance tuning it? >>> >>> Thank >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> >> USB is going to be a bottleneck no matter what; why not crack those >> drives open and hook them up to a SATA/IDE interface instead? >> >> If you need to stick with USB I would check to make sure that they are >> operating at the full 2.0 speed. Maybe run hdparm -t on each disk and >> see that you're getting somewhere around 20MB/s. >> >> >> -- >> Donovan Niesen >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > >