ntfs-3g vs. ext2ifs

[Tyler Aviss]

Well,mine was a combination.
I have a little box with a 1.5Ghz C-7 processor that runs as my NAT
box and fileserver. I had to dump some files to it recently from a USB
drive, and noticed that it was pinging. I discovered that it was
running "hot" with around 98% CPU utilization.

In addition to my normal running processes, the excess was mainly
rsync, ntfs-3g, and probably the software MD syncing up all that new
data too. The NTFS part was noticable though, between 20-30%
utilization at times.

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:48 PM, meng<meng-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> -----Original message-----
> From: Tyler Aviss tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:59:08 -0400
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: ntfs-3g vs. ext2ifs
>
>> EXT2fs on windows is OK,with the odd permissions quirk.
>> Functionality-wise, NTFS-3g on Linux is good, but I've noticed that
>> running the NTFS-3G/fuse layer actually consumes a noticeably large
>> amount of CPU on older machines, so performance-wise not so good (I
>> think it may be a general FUSE thing due to the userland component).
>
> Thanks, Tyler.
>
> I haven't noticed any permissions quirks with ext2ifs but then I've used it only once to see if it worked :-)
>
> I been using ntfs-3g but did not notice any overhead but then I wasn't looking.
> I'll check using top and see.
>
> Thanks again for the heads up.
>
> Meng
>
>
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