Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

[Miklos Szeredi]

> >> And I didn't advocate moving
> >> ntfs to fuse, still that was done and the resulting filesystem at the
> >> moment happens to outperform the kernel one in every respect ;)
> >
> > Gad.  Why?
> 
> Miklos has the wrong end of the stick.  No-one has "moved" ntfs to  
> fuse.  And the fuse implementation doesn't outperform the kernel  
> implementation in anything at all.  However the kernel one as  
> available in the kernel source tree doesn't have many write-features,  
> it can only overwrite files, it cannot create/delete files, etc.  So I  
> guess if you define "performance" to mean "features" then sure  
> ntfsmount/ntfs-3g have more features than the public kernel driver.   
> If you define "performance" to mean "speed" then no ntfsmount/ntfs-3g  
> can't compare to the kernel except in very limited and meaningless  
> benchmarks...

OK, I was exaggerating (notice the smiley).  But I do have a feeling
(and just a feeling, no hard data), that ntfs-3g is making the
in-kernel ntfs filesystem increasingly irrelevant.  And yes, that's
mostly because of the features, but also because the performance is
not at all as bad, as some people would think a userspace filesystem
has to be.

Miklos
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