Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:47:56 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: ANN: New NTFS driver (2.0.0/TNG) now finished. |
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Grogan wrote:
> On a fresh boot with 2.4.19-pre4: > > bash-2.05$ time cp -r /mnt/windows3/windows/system32 /home/grogan/test > > real 8m45.256s > user 0m0.730s > sys 6m27.030s > > On a fresh boot with 2.5.7 with the new NTFS driver: > > bash-2.05$ time cp -r /mnt/windows3/windows/system32 /home/grogan/test > > real 3m13.190s > user 0m0.610s > sys 0m51.660s > > This "test" was repeated twice under the same conditions, with > negligible difference in the result (couple of seconds). Both of these > disks are on the same IDE controller (/home is /dev/hda8 and the NTFS > partition is /dev/hdb2). I must say I wasn't expecting such a drastic > difference. The data appears to be intact. (correct size and number of > files, anyway)
Looks great, one of the few things in 2.5 I see as a reason upgrade in the future. This could be really useful to people who need to pull NT data.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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