Re: fuse ntfs-3g on USB poor performances

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 8:53 AM,  <tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to do a back-up of files served by an amd64 NetBSD node (5.2.0),
> and, in case of problem, this back-up has to be readable directly by
> Windows nodes. So I use external USB connected disks (USB 3.0; the
> server has USB 3.0 ports too), formatted as NTFS, and I use
> fuse/ntfs-3g.
>
> But the write performance is quite poor (1.5 Mb/s).
>
> Is there anyway of speeding things up? From searching around, it seems
> that the bottleneck is with the driver by itself.
>
> TIA
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are you referencing specific links from "searching around"?

I believe you that it's slow, but I'm sure it would take some research
to make any improvements.