Hi guys, Tony's suggestion has solved the problem. I downgrade via yum, restarted the computer and its all ok. In fact, I believe it is much better than before the problem. I am pretty sure that before the problem I was making copies into my backup disk at a speed around 10M/s. Right now I am making a backup of the folder containing my work, with 21G, and it is happening at a speed of 33M/s. The fact that it is now much better than before I can't understand (I imagine that the downgrade has installed the version I had before february 4, and it should therefore be working as before), but that is another problem.<br>
<br>Thank you all very much! I am posting either the link of this discussion (I don't know if it is possible) or the solution for the problem in fedora.forum, since I imagine other people will start to experience it too. Thank you again!<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Tony Molloy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony.molloy@ul.ie">tony.molloy@ul.ie</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">On Friday 18 February 2011 15:17:27 Ron Leach wrote:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > It seems therefore to be a problem in the software, caused by the updates,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > since until 10 days ago it was everything ok. However, I usually make the</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > updates whenever they appear but make my backups much less frequently.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > Therefore I don't know for sure what has changed in Fedora through the</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > updates since the last backup I made, when everything was working fine.</p>
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</div><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > Here is the line of my /etc/fstab file which defines my backup disk, with > > the label common</p><div class="im">
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > LABEL=common /home/vinicius/Desktop/common ntfs</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > auto,user,sync 0 0</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> Am I correct in thinking that 'sync' disables write-caching? It might</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> be interesting to change that, and see if performance is still just as</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> bad.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> Best of luck, Ron</p>
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</div><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Can't help with your problem but on Fedora 14</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">ntfs-3g-2011.1.15-1.fc14 Fri 04 Feb 2011 06:47:18 GMT</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">So the ntfs drivers were updated in early february about when you say the problem started.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">You could try and downgrade the drivers and see if that sorts out your problem</p>
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