On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:04:32AM -0600 or thereabouts, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013, at 02:09 AM, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > > Am 12/18/13 23:09, schrieb Evan Root: > > > I have a perverted solution, use fat32. It's failures are very well > > > understood. > > > > Inspired by 'perverted solution': maybe NTFS? > > > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=138209682226904 > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=137027292319143 > > I know for a fact that on GNU/Linux, NTFS performance is terrible, > especially on larger files. True story: once I tried backing up > something as a large .zip file to NTFS on a GNU/Linux system. The ETA > would start off saying something reasonable like "3 hours" then, three > hours later, it would be "about 8 hours" and it would keep going up from > there. > > -- > Shawn K. Quinn > skqu...@rushpost.com >
I'm running Ubuntu Raring while I learn about OpenBSD (slowly as I'm too old to do anything quick) and I've lately found ntfs much quicker. As an experiment last night I tarred and gzipped 216G of video files across two USB3 hard disks. (I have an ASMedia card in the Rock motherboard) The first was ext4 and the second was ntfs. It completed in 5:01 hours. I've got some spare space on one of the twin hard drives so I'll experiment on that as time permits. Regards Maurice
