On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:04:32AM -0600 or thereabouts, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > > I know for a fact that on GNU/Linux, NTFS performance is terrible, > especially on larger files. True story: once I tried backing up > something as a large .zip file to NTFS on a GNU/Linux system. The ETA > would start off saying something reasonable like "3 hours" then, three > hours later, it would be "about 8 hours" and it would keep going up from > there. >
Shawn Quinn, I take it all back. The performance on ntfs in Ubuntu 13.04 is atrocious with large files. The tar archive of video that I mentioned before had _not finished after 5:01 hours but took another 5 hours to complete. So to verify I tried a plain copy command between two internal hardisks. After the first 7G transfer had decreased to under 200K per sec. My home PC has 8G of RAM. Regards Maurice
