Wrote a 26 MB file (using cp) to my Sandisk minicruiser (USB 2.0) memory stick, it took 17 minutes! Seemed to be a LITTLE SLOW :), so I started looking for the reason and found it in the fstab entry, it was the "sync" option.
When I mounted the stick without the sync option the cp + a single sync to flush the data to the device took 10 seconds.
Can someone tell me how to change the automagically generated fstab entry? Thanks, John