Hi,
On 14 Apr 2008, at 08:49, Andrew Morton wrote:
Miklos has the wrong end of the stick. No-one has "moved" ntfs to
fuse. And the fuse implementation doesn't outperform the kernel
implementation in anything at all. However the kernel one as
available in the kernel source tree doesn't have many write-features,
it can only overwrite files, it cannot create/delete files, etc. So I
guess if you define "performance" to mean "features" then sure
ntfsmount/ntfs-3g have more features than the public kernel driver.
If you define "performance" to mean "speed" then no ntfsmount/ntfs-3g
can't compare to the kernel except in very limited and meaningless
benchmarks...
btw. even comparing features, the fuse solutions lag behind in some
respects, e.g. no-one can "kill -9" the kernel driver leaving a
corrupt file system on the volume (and under no-one I include the OOM
killer for example!) and another example is that the fuse solutions
require large amounts of ram whereas the kernel driver can happily
function in 1MiB ram and less even as everything is in the page cache
so it will just cause heavy paging whilst the fuse solutions just blow
up / OOM the machine when they find a large directory and the user has
only 32MiB ram for example... At least I have seen reports of this on
the mailing lists, not that I have ever cared to try.
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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