On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 07:20:04PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:50:12PM +0000, Russell Gadd wrote: > > > > Should I go NTFS now for my data files? (keeping the main Lenny root > > filesystem on an ext3 partition). > > Just my experience but: > > 1) VFAT is a terrible filesystem with all sorts of restrictions, not least > filesize and encoding issues. > 2) NTFS (using ntfs-3g) performs terribly on Linux. The FUSE driver is > slow, and this makes data transfer a very lengthy affair. No idea > about reliability, but I think it's better than it was and I've not > run into issues myself. > > Note that there's a third option: EXT2. > > Ext2 obviously works very well on Linux. Using the EXT2IFS driver for > Windows, you can use Ext2/3 filesystems on Windows as well. > http://www.fs-driver.org/ >
In casual observations I hadn't noticed that. Never tested it. However no large transfers between ext3 and NTFS ever got my attention as particularly slow or fast. I use NTFS on a shared storage partition and two usb drives but not on Linux specific data partitions. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100307202629.ga23...@europa.office
