Hi, Mathieu.
On Jul 16 2015, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Rogério Brito <[email protected]> wrote:
> > BTW, one very important question: are the problems with usbmount only
> > apparent when using fuse filesystems or are they also apparent when using
> > filesystems supported by the kernel (e.g., vfat or ext4)?
>
> vfat & ext4 usbkey were ok for me. So I suspect this is only FUSE-related.
Ah, thanks for the confirmation of my suspicion.
I just got a few external HDs that came preformatted in NTFS and I would
like to keep them as NTFS for the sake of:
* Storing files larger than 4GB (namely, videos that I grab from youtube via
my package youtube-dl or tarballs of backups).
* Compatibility with other systems, in the (hopefully, rare) event that shit
happens and I have to restore things from them.
Unfortunately, mounting NTFS filesystems with ntfs-3g with the default
options that udisks2 provides by default (and this applies to every modern
Linux system nowadays running any desktop environment) are a nightmare.
In particular, the lack of the option `big_writes` makes even modern amd64
CPUs burn so many cycles, while putting the option `big_writes` alleviates a
*lot* the CPU load and things get, from my own tests, about a 3 fold
speedup. That's the difference between a file transfer taking 1 hour
vs. it taking 3 hours.
This is one of the positive sides of usbmount in relation to udisks/udisks2,
which I think that may justify usbmount still be maintained.
What do you guys think of this? If I continue developing usbmount, I will
move it to github (as I previously mentioned), since that way the code gets
a lot more visibility and I like the workflow much more than via patchbombs
being sent to my e-mail address. :)
I would also be willing to give commit access to anybody that shows good
contributions to the repository.
Thanks for the feedback,
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