[geeks] HD/IDE question

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> What sort of percentage slower are you seeing?  More like 10% or more 
>> like 50%?
> 
> I would have to benchmark to know for sure.
> 
> Basically I can write ext2 files in Linux about 1.5-2 times as fast as
> the Windows side can read them.  Keep in mind the Linux side is using
> ext3, which means writing journaled data.
> 
> That just seems a bit off.
> 
> 20% hit... I'd expect that, but not a half-speed hit, with reading being
> slower than journaled writing.
> 
> Next time I go to Windows, I'll try to properly time this.

If you would, also time Ext2 vs. NTFS under Windows.  It might help to 
get that perspective in order to further isolate the inherent filesystem 
latency under Windows.

Peace...  Sridhar