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Re: [News] Linux Ext Beats NTFS

>>>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>> news:2163690.oXFsKD8Lk2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
These are MB/seconds:
>>>>> | OS            NTFS to ext3    ext3 to NTFS    NTFS to NTFS
>>>>> | Ubuntu Edgy           4.63            5.67            3.85
>>>>> | Windows XP            2.82            2.82            3.57


"Ian Hilliard" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:cdfdc$4542659c$544a537b$24086@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Oliver Wong wrote:
>
>> To me, the figures suggest that Ubuntu Edgy
>>     does
>> copies faster than Windows. It doesn't say anything about ext3 versus
>> NTFS. For that, you'd probably want to compare an "NTFS to NTFS" column
>> against a "ext3 to ext3" column.
>
> It says something in so far as NTFS to Ext3 and Ext3 to NTFS is 
> considerably
> faster than NTFS to NTFS.

    Hmm, I hadn't considered that. Thanks. Still, it seems like the 
variables haven't been isolated properly. Perhaps NTFS is faster at writes, 
and ext3 is faster at reads? And in NTFS to NTFS, the read was the 
bottleneck?

    - Oliver 



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