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Some amount of that might be coming from Windows Defender and similar, but yeah NTFS isn't exactly a speed demon.

Nothing particularly wrong with NTFS, it's Windows filesystem architecture that is slow.

I can't find it right now, but I believe there was a talk from a Rust maintainer a while ago about the Rust installation being way slower than it should be, which was almost entirely a rant on Windows file system performance.

That one perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbKGw8MQ0i8

I don't recall it particularly ranty, though.

That's it, thank you!

I chose the word because I remembered it being a bit rant-adjacent ("we're used to doing it this way, ... but windows does it that way"). But it's been a while since I watched it (not particularly attentively either, to be honest). That's just what stuck.

I'd love to see a benchmark of NTFS on Windows vs NTFS on Linux. Unfortunately ntfs-3g uses FUSE so right now it's not really a fair comparison.

Linux has an upstream kernel driver for NTFS, you don't need fuse ntfs-3g any more (well, they have different quirks such as how UNIX permissions are emulated).

The readwrite driver is new, but it always had an older readonly driver too, which would be fine for benchmarking.

Back in 2011 Tuxera's proprietary Linux NTFS driver was maybe faster than ext as well: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OTU5Ng

Thanks I wasn't aware of that, I stand corrected

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