Just so you all know, This thread makes me want to try out Ext on Openbsd reeeaalll bad. I might just be able to provide real answers about how it works here in a couple weeks.
Evan Root, CCNA On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Maurice McCarthy <m...@mythic-beasts.com>wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:04:32AM -0600 or thereabouts, Shawn K. Quinn > wrote: > > > > 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 Quinn, I take it all back. The performance on ntfs in Ubuntu 13.04 > is atrocious with large files. > > The tar archive of video that I mentioned before had _not finished after > 5:01 hours but took another 5 hours to complete. > > So to verify I tried a plain copy command between two internal hardisks. > After the first 7G transfer had decreased to under 200K per sec. My home PC > has 8G of RAM. > > Regards > Maurice
