USB Thumbdrive Performance with HAL

[Kay Sievers]

On 8/21/07, Antonio Dupont <antonio at moosefactory.com> wrote:
> First let me say that HAL is working fine with a PIII 800 Mhz system running
> CentOS 5.
>
> From a default installation of CentOS 5, I can put in a USB thumb drive,
> automatically mount it, and get a little icon on the desktop.  This takes
> about four to five seconds.
>
> What I would like to know is what I could do to speed up this process.  Reason
> why is because I will be inserting and removing approximately 100 USB thumb
> drives per hour and having a program looking at the /media directory for newly
> inserted devices.
>
> I have done something similar with hot plugging on another system and the
> devices mount in about one to two seconds.
>
> Can someone point me in the direction of HAL tunables for USB devices.  I've
> searched this site and the internet and really didn't find any thing b/c
> probably most people wouldn't care about a few extra seconds.
>
> Thanks for any insight in advance.

echo 0 > /sys/module/usb_storage/parameters/delay_use

Kay