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NTFS-FUSE versus Captive-FUSE.
Posted by DebianIsCool on Mon 6 Mar 2006 at 11:16
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Writing to Windows XP, NTFS-FUSE or Captive-FUSE, which is best?
NTFS-FUSE versus Captive-FUSE.
I thought I would run a few tests to check the differences between the two ways of writing to NTFS partitions.
The first test was to copy the 700 MB file SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso
The test machine is rather old (a 750 MHz Duron chip with 512 MB RAM). For comparison purposes, it took 11:36 minutes to copy the file from a USB memory stick (VFAT) to a Reiser partition.
Results for NTFS-FUSE.
# date; cp /SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /c; date
Sun Mar 5 01:37:18 UTC 2006
Sun Mar 5 01:53:42 UTC 2006
NTFS-FUSE took 16:24 minutes to copy the 700 MB file from a Reiser partition to an NTFS partition.
# date; cp /c/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /c/SUSE-Copy.iso; date
Sun Mar 5 01:54:59 UTC 2006
Sun Mar 5 01:58:59 UTC 2006
NTFS-FUSE took 4 minutes to copy the 700 MB file within the same NTFS partition.
# date; cp /c/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /d; date
Sun Mar 5 02:17:23 UTC 2006
Sun Mar 5 02:23:11 UTC 2006
NTFS-FUSE took 5:48 minutes to copy the 700 MB file from one NTFS partition to another NTFS partition.
# date; cp /c/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /; date
Sun Mar 5 04:25:23 UTC 2006
Sun Mar 5 04:27:59 UTC 2006
NTFS-FUSE took 2:36 minutes to copy the 700 MB file from an NTFS partition to a Reiser partition.
Results for Captive-FUSE.
# date; cp /SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /C; date
Sun Mar 5 04:44:28 UTC 2006
Sun Mar 5 06:53:34 UTC 2006
Captive-FUSE took 132:06 minutes to copy the 700 MB file from a Reiser partition to an NTFS partition.
# date; cp /C/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /C/SUSE-Copy.iso; date
Mon Mar 6 00:04:03 UTC 2006
cp: reading `/C/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso': Invalid argument
Mon Mar 6 01:36:41 UTC 2006
FAILED: Captive-FUSE was never able to copy the 700 MB file within the same NTFS partition (3 tries, same error).
# date; cp /C/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /D; date
Sun Mar 5 22:23:41 UTC 2006
Mon Mar 6 00:01:15 UTC 2006
Captive-FUSE took 97:34 minutes to miss-copy the 700 MB file from one NTFS partition to another NTFS partition.
FAILED: Wrong MD5.
# date; cp /C/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /; date
Sun Mar 5 22:15:06 UTC 2006
Sun Mar 5 22:22:17 UTC 2006
Captive-FUSE took 7:11 minutes to copy the 700 MB file from an NTFS partition to a Reiser partition.
Conclusion.
NTFS-FUSE easily wins the first round.
Writing to Windows XP/2000/NT (NTFS formatted) from Linux using NTFS-FUSE.
Writing to Windows XP/2000/NT (NTFS formatted) from Linux using Captive-FUSE (Update).
Writing to Windows XP, NTFS-FUSE or Captive-FUSE, which is best?
NTFS-FUSE versus Captive-FUSE.
I thought I would run a few tests to check the differences between the two ways of writing to NTFS partitions.
The first test was to copy the 700 MB file SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso
The test machine is rather old (a 750 MHz Duron chip with 512 MB RAM). For comparison purposes, it took 11:36 minutes to copy the file from a USB memory stick (VFAT) to a Reiser partition.
Results for NTFS-FUSE.
# date; cp /SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /c; date
Sun Mar 5 01:37:18 UTC 2006
Sun Mar 5 01:53:42 UTC 2006
NTFS-FUSE took 16:24 minutes to copy the 700 MB file from a Reiser partition to an NTFS partition.
# date; cp /c/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /c/SUSE-Copy.iso; date
Sun Mar 5 01:54:59 UTC 2006
Sun Mar 5 01:58:59 UTC 2006
NTFS-FUSE took 4 minutes to copy the 700 MB file within the same NTFS partition.
# date; cp /c/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /d; date
Sun Mar 5 02:17:23 UTC 2006
Sun Mar 5 02:23:11 UTC 2006
NTFS-FUSE took 5:48 minutes to copy the 700 MB file from one NTFS partition to another NTFS partition.
# date; cp /c/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /; date
Sun Mar 5 04:25:23 UTC 2006
Sun Mar 5 04:27:59 UTC 2006
NTFS-FUSE took 2:36 minutes to copy the 700 MB file from an NTFS partition to a Reiser partition.
Results for Captive-FUSE.
# date; cp /SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /C; date
Sun Mar 5 04:44:28 UTC 2006
Sun Mar 5 06:53:34 UTC 2006
Captive-FUSE took 132:06 minutes to copy the 700 MB file from a Reiser partition to an NTFS partition.
# date; cp /C/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /C/SUSE-Copy.iso; date
Mon Mar 6 00:04:03 UTC 2006
cp: reading `/C/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso': Invalid argument
Mon Mar 6 01:36:41 UTC 2006
FAILED: Captive-FUSE was never able to copy the 700 MB file within the same NTFS partition (3 tries, same error).
# date; cp /C/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /D; date
Sun Mar 5 22:23:41 UTC 2006
Mon Mar 6 00:01:15 UTC 2006
Captive-FUSE took 97:34 minutes to miss-copy the 700 MB file from one NTFS partition to another NTFS partition.
FAILED: Wrong MD5.
# date; cp /C/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD3.iso /; date
Sun Mar 5 22:15:06 UTC 2006
Sun Mar 5 22:22:17 UTC 2006
Captive-FUSE took 7:11 minutes to copy the 700 MB file from an NTFS partition to a Reiser partition.
Conclusion.
NTFS-FUSE easily wins the first round.
Writing to Windows XP/2000/NT (NTFS formatted) from Linux using NTFS-FUSE.
Writing to Windows XP/2000/NT (NTFS formatted) from Linux using Captive-FUSE (Update).