[geeks] HD/IDE question

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 @ 10:23 -0400, Sridhar Ayengar said:
> 
>> velociraptor wrote:
>>> So, the next question: recommendations for a file system which is
>>> readable and writeable by all the major OSes? E.g. OS X, Solaris,
>>> Linux, *BSD, Windows XP?  Ext2/3 appears to be the only choice for
>>> support of files >2GB.  I'd be interested to hear other suggestions
>>> and/or anyone's experiences using the tools for ext2 under non-Linux
>>> OSes.
>> I agree that ext2 appears to be the only choice.  I haven't tried it 
>> under Windows yet, but it works fine under NetBSD.
> 
> Just one caveat: I've found that Windows is very slow when reading ext2,
> either with the filesystem drivers, or the userland program.
> 
> Anyone know why?
> 
> Or is it just Windows being slower in general that I'm seeing?

What sort of percentage slower are you seeing?  More like 10% or more 
like 50%?

Peace...  Sridhar