Timeline for Can I configure my Linux system for more aggressive file system caching?
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| Feb 21, 2019 at 9:17 | comment | added | peterh | Linux ntfs works in userspace. The worst thing what could happen is the crash of the daemon, resulting an fs failure and a minor corruption. But I never seen it. Another problem is that it can't follow the ntfs permissions and acls perfectly, and we have very little non-m$ tools to care it. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 6:00 | comment | added | Mikko Rantalainen |
Even though btrfs is recently designed file system, I would avoid that if performance is needed. We've been running otherwise identical systems with btrfs and ext4 file systems and ext4 wins in real world with a big margin (btrfs seems to require about 4x CPU time the ext4 needs for the same performance level and causes more disk operations for a single logical command). Depending on workload, I would suggest ext4, jfs or xfs for any performance demanding work.
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| Apr 12, 2018 at 12:51 | comment | added | Mikko Rantalainen | NTFS on Linux is pretty much acceptable except for the performance. Considering that the question was specifically about improving file system performance, NTFS should be the first thing to go. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 22:40 | comment | added | underscore_d | A summary of what these supposed problems are of NTFS would have been useful. | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 12:41 | comment | added | Felix Yan | If you have to use your data inside Windows too, NTFS may be the only option. (many other options available if you can use your Windows just as a VM inside linux) | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 12:39 | comment | added | Ivan | I've already moved entirely away from NTFS to ext4 once, leaving the only NTFS partition to be the Windows system partition. But it turned in many inconveniences for me and I have turned back to NTFS as the main data partition (where I store all my documents, downloads, projects, source code etc.) file system. I don't give up rethinking my partitions structure and my workflow (to use less Windows) but right now giving up NTFS doesn't seem a realistic option. | |
| Jan 29, 2012 at 4:31 | history | answered | Felix Yan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |