From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 11:51:16 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54615106566B for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:51:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE77A8FC1F for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p1FBoxSl033905; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:51:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id p1FBoxwe033904; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:50:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:50:59 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <201102151150.p1FBoxwe033904@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexander@leidinger.net In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-fs User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.5 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:51:14 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: ext2fs: ext2 vs. ext3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:51:16 -0000 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > The media player is Linux-based, so I can't use UFS. Even > > worse, it refuses to mount ext2, while ext3 seems to work > > fine. So my only choice is to format the disk with ext3, > > because FAT has a 4 GB limit and NTFS is unsupported on > > FreeBSD for practical purposes. > > The sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port does not work for you? It is slow. I mean *REALLY* slow, it's basically unusable. Remember I'm trying to fill and update a 1 TB disk here with video files that are typically several GB in size. The disk will have reached the end of its warranty before the data transfer is completed. I have specifically bought an external enclosure that also has eSATA (beside USB2) so I have the full head-to-platter bandwidth of the disk. But the FUSE NTFS driver is not much faster than USB1 (this is not the fault of FUSE, in fact the ntfscp tool from the sysutils/ntfsprogs port is just as slow). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.