On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 06:14, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 19:56, Anarky wrote: > > > like I said in another mail if I copy fat32 to linux partition > > (don't know what kind exactly, the default installed with mdk 9.1) the > > speed is constantly fast. But that is one side of it: that copy speed & > > dropdown. > > As I understand these tests (hdparm -tT ) don't have anything to do > > with the partition type (actually at least on hda I've got like 7 or 8 > > partitions) ... so maybe there's a problem in general in how my linux > > works with my hdds? > > This is actually more of an inefficiency of FAT/FAT32/NTFS partitions > and structures - not with GNU/linux; always bear in mind that > FAT/FAT32/NTFS file systems are more than 10 years old and haven't been > updated as Microsoft doesn't feel it necessary to do so...at least until > 2005...
not 'really' true, As I recall, NTFS has been updated (in order to retain incompatibility)a couple of times, NTFS on XP is not exactly the same critter as NTFS on NT3.5
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