NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver Performance
The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver for Linux and other operating systems. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista file systems. Most POSIX file system operations are supported, with the exception of full file ownership and access right support.
It seems to be quite stable, and is based on FUSE. Interestingly this does not seem to impact performance at all: NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver Performance.
| Random File Operation | Sequential | Random Seeks |
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| Num Files | Create | Lookup | Delete | File Size | Write | Rewrite | Read | |||||||||
| / sec | % CPU | / sec | % CPU | / sec | % CPU | K/sec | % CPU | K/sec | % CPU | K/sec | % CPU | / sec | % CPU | |||
| reiserfs | 16k | 20231 | 98 | +++++ | +++ | 16550 | 97 | 1G | 23017 | 9 | 10781 | 4 | 21337 | 5 | 166.7 | 0 |
| ntfs-3g | 16k | 3503 | 4 | 16129 | 6 | 5115 | 5 | 1G | 21052 | 5 | 8376 | 3 | 17714 | 3 | 127.1 | 0 |
| jfs | 16k | 2950 | 15 | +++++ | +++ | 2733 | 10 | 1G | 23735 | 7 | 10908 | 3 | 23463 | 3 | 172.4 | 0 |
| xfs | 16k | 1915 | 18 | +++++ | +++ | 1086 | 6 | 1G | 23684 | 6 | 10814 | 5 | 23368 | 4 | 138.0 | 0 |
| ext3 | 16k | 1736 | 95 | +++++ | +++ | 8772 | 90 | 1G | 23427 | 9 | 10696 | 4 | 21772 | 3 | 152.6 | 0 |
| fat32 | 16k | 70 | 96 | 91 | 97 | 162 | 96 | 1G | 18417 | 5 | 11094 | 8 | 20832 | 10 | 154.3 | 0 |
| paragon-ntfs | 16k | 38 | 95 | +++++ | +++ | 555 | 88 | 1G | 23649 | 11 | 6342 | 4 | 10922 | 5 | 124.5 | 0 |
| captive-ntfs | 16k | Always crashes and loses files. | ||||||||||||||
Numbers based from February 21, 2007.