Hi Shirish, On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, shirish wrote:
> Have a look at ntfs-3g wikipedia page > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G > > few things/features which it talks about are > > a. NTFS-3G does not yet support full NTFS journaling True. Journaling is not reliable, slow and obsolete. Snapshotting will solve all of these ;-) > b. NTFS-3G is not yet optimized for performance This is fairly complex. Performance optimizations are intensively ongoing on several fronts and technical areas for over two years: NTFS-3G, FUSE library, FUSE kernel module, kernel VFS, inefficent applications. The codes are being gradually released as they matured to production quality. Today the choices are 1. Stable NTFS-3G: it is the slowest but usually it's still faster than e.g. XFS in general use and the streaming performance can often saturate the disk bandwidth (50-100+ MB/sec). 2. Advanced NTFS-3G Preview: better performance http://pagesperso-orange.fr/b.andre/security.html 3. Development NTFS-3G: it can outperform stable kernel filesystems, e.g. in compilebench, sustained write (902 MB/sec). 4. Optimized NTFS-3G for Embedded devices: it is 10-20 times faster than Stable NTFS-3G. > c. The focus of the development is still reliability The top priority of the development will be always reliability and safe interoperability. Though we don't have much to do here at the moment, since we are not aware of any issues anymore. The current focus is reviewing, intensively testing and merging features from the Advanced NTFS-3G branch to the Stable branch, keep working on the performance improvements and on features in which most NTFS-3G users are interested and need. > and implementing the missing POSIX functionality. Well, to be honest, I don't know what we miss anymore. The Advanced NTFS-3G driver passes the PJD POSIX File System Test Suite without any fault: http://ntfs-3g.org/pjd-fstest.html > ntfs-3g itself doesn't have any documentation 'man ntfs-3g' and http://ntfs-3g.org Regards, Szaka ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
