[ale] Copy time for USB ext HDD

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Sat Jun 20 16:08:36 EDT 2009


On 06/20/2009 03:37 PM, David A. Merritt wrote:
>
> How is the disk you are copying *to* formatted?  If it is an NTFS-formatted
> drive, this is typical.  The write-capable file system for NTFS is a
> FUSE layer and is very slow.
>
>   
It doesn't look much slower than native filesystems.

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/performance.html

All the best,
Brian Pitts


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