wget: progress doesn't work with BusyBox v1.22.1 on flash memory

Cathey, Jim jcathey at ciena.com
Thu Mar 27 15:49:43 UTC 2014


>I'll fix the bug, but why your writes are so slow?

Flash _is_ slow.

>Kernel is supposed to buffer writes to filesystems.

That only works, to a point.  Perhaps write-through
is engages on this _system_, for fitness of purpose
reasons?  The point is, you can't _count_ on buffering
to hide bugs!

-- Jim



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