On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:57:18PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: > It is extremely slow, but I am unsure just how slow, but 3-4 times slower > sounds about right.
Wow! > If the drive is never plugged into a Windows machine, then there is no point > in it being formatted as NTFS. I do not have clients. I'm well past life expectancy, and so I need to know that my grandchildren can simply plug the drive into a Windows machine or Mac to access the files. > , but it would be better formatted with ext4 or another Linux > filesystem. Yes, for sure. If you are right about the speed difference between NTFS and ext4, then is there another FS that can be accessed by a Windows machine that is not much slower than ext4? -- Haines Brown _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
