On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:53:47PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > Hello, > > I need to do a back-up of files served by an amd64 NetBSD node (5.2.0), > and, in case of problem, this back-up has to be readable directly by > Windows nodes. So I use external USB connected disks (USB 3.0; the > server has USB 3.0 ports too), formatted as NTFS, and I use > fuse/ntfs-3g. > > But the write performance is quite poor (1.5 Mb/s). > > Is there anyway of speeding things up? From searching around, it seems > that the bottleneck is with the driver by itself. >
Are you using the character device (e.g. /dev/rsd1a) or the block device (e.g. /dev/sd1a) for ntfs-3g? Is the umass(4) attaching via a USB 1 or USB 2 controller? Jonathan Kollasch