Posted Jul 14, 2008 14:26 UTC (Mon) by szaka (subscriber, #12740)
Parent article: The 2.6.26 kernel is out
I think the shared writable mmap support will make happy many Wine and VMware users using
NTFS-3G who were waiting for this a few years to happen. Big thanks!
Apparently the large write support is also making a big impact on performance (much higher
bandwidth or much lower CPU usage). Previously the maximum write speed was around 100 MB/s,
now the highest ever measured is 802 MB/s which probably could be easily(?) improved by
lifting the current scalability limit at 128 kB block size. Some recent benchmark data
block
size tmpfs ntfs-3g ext3
512 421 16 128
1k 613 31 287
2k 775 57 393
4k 898 98 545
8k 949 174 579
16k 973 289 593
32k 964 395 603
64k 971 515 613
128k 977 665 621
256k 979 661 622
512k 979 665 618
1M 977 644 625