Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my> writes:

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> [I read all postings in the archive AFAIK]
> 
> Just started with CF on embedded hardware advertised to run OpenBSD;
> ARInfoTek. It does run OpenBSD very well!
> Now I want the embedded system to run off CF; the board has a CF
> socket to be wd0.
> 4.2 runs out of the box, but with very slow access of files. The CF is
> reasonably fast, though, with ~6MB at 'dd'. But once it has to access
> files for r/w, it gets very slow.
> I found some postings that 4.3 would be better, but the install of 4.3
> here mainly -stalled- and took a good hour, from a local ftp-site.
> locate.updatedb is incredibly fast, while some file extraction takes ages.
> It looks like a large, single, file copies very fast, similar to
> 'dd'. But opening a file for r/w seems to take ages. Something like
> tar -C /tmp -xzphf etc43.tgz
> takes a minute, easily. And etc43.tgz is only 1.2MB.
> Copying of this file is quick:
> $ date &&  cp etc43.tgz demo && date
> Mon Oct 20 11:29:15 SGT 2008
> Mon Oct 20 11:29:16 SGT 2008
> 
> Any hint welcome,

try soft update : http://openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#SoftUpdates

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