Hi,
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, shirish wrote:
> However, you still need ntfsprogs even if you use ntfs-3g, as the
> filesystem information query tools, resize, creation, etc tools are a
> part of ntfsprogs, not ntfs-3g.
Yes. NTFS-3G focuses on a stable read/write NTFS driver.
> Also, linux-ntfs natively mounts via the kernel while ntfs-3g requires
> FUSE. This also MIGHT mean linux-ntfs for reading NTFS has faster
> performance.
It's quite irrelevant how a volume is mounted. The file system design and
the quality of the implementation matter.
It's easy to check this out. 1.3 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, 1 GB test file,
'time dd if=testfile bs=1M > /dev/null'
Stable NTFS-3G: 40.1 MB/s
Advanced NTFS-3G: 40.8 MB/s
Development NTFS-3G: 41.3 MB/s
Kernel NTFS: 41.3 MB/s
How is it possible that the numbers are almost the same? The explanation is
that the bottleneck is the hardware. The bottleneck is the bandwidth of the
disk, and not the file system driver.
Szaka
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