Re: FAT32 problems with kernel 2.4.19

From: Tomas Szepe (szepe@pinerecords.com)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 14:46:28 EST

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> [esp@pyroshells.com]
>
> When I'm writing to FAT32 partition, there seems to be a 300% incurred
> size penalty over the equivalent files on ext2 (when unpacking a
> source distribution like boost, gcc, etc)

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Can you elaborate?

> however it would be really, really nice if NTFS was supported (ie: if
> linux could write files on NTFS..) I have a sneaky suspicion that
> FAT32 isn't the greatest and only used on these drives because it is
> the lowest common denominator.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html

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Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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