previously on this list Maurice McCarthy contributed: > 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.
I wonder if it was small files that took ages (windows is also very very slow there) as I seem to remember doing that and stopping it once as it was redicuous. I recovered 300G my father accidentally deleted on a removable NTFS on a debian stable system which will be at older versions than Ubuntu. Copying it back was as fast as I would expect the drive to go (50meg/s I think as it was a 2.5"). p.s. If you delete your unimportant data by accident on ext3 or ext4 it will take more knowledge and a lot more time to recover. (scan the whole surface and sort out the rubbish with less reliable tools rather than scan and copy with testdisk). So basically I wouldn't use ext3 or ext4 for data that isn't important enough to backup but would not be easy to replace like the OS system data is. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd _______________________________________________________________________
