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Cc: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Low NTFS read performance
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On Wednesday 23 January 2008 23:08:27 Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
> Diomidis Spinellis wrote in freebsd-stable@:
> > I can't get an Ultrium-2 LTO drive to stream, and (I think) I've traced
> > the problem to the read performance of the USB2-attached NTFS disk, and
> > specifically the NTFS filesystem.  I'm reading a single 190GB file, and
> > the throughput I'm getting is 5.4MB/s:

Are you using the NTFS kernel option or the sysutils/fusefs-ntfs Port?

In my experience the latter is much faster and probably superior in most other 
aspects.