On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Bill Bogstad <[email protected]> wrote: > [slow ntfs-3g filesystem performance]
>Use FAT32 to share. Or, if you use Windows infrequently, use a Windows ext4 >driver. FAT32 has a 2TB filesystem limit. THE USB drive in question is 4TB. >NTFS-3G is recommended mount option per SystemRescueCD when repairing Password >and Registry files, so i take that as being the 'good' recommendation. If all you want to do is read/write a few small files NTFS-3g is probably fine. I'm looking for decent performance here. It seems that what I had thought I had discovered is true. There isn't a decent free NTFS filesystem implementation for Linux. The authors of ntsfs-3g also have a commercial product called Tuxera NTFS which is apparently available for purchase if you are an embedded systems manufacturer. If you are just a small time user, there is nothing out there. Given the vendor reported huge performance difference between ntfs-3g and Tuxera NTFS, it would seem that ntfs-3g would be ripe for forking the code; but I guess nobody with the skills cares enough about free NTFS performance for Linux to bother. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
