In this case I’m using the “old” NTFS-3G driver as specified by -t ntfs-3g. My fstab file holds only one entry for an external WDbook drive. dev/disk/by-partlabel/wdbook /media/heiko/wdbook ntfs-3g noauto,rw,user,nls=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=027,fmask=137,nofail,windows_names,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0 Search the /etc/fstab file for NTFS entries: $ grep -i ntfs /etc/fstab You have to do that manually for now, at least under Manjaro (see also the Arch Linux wiki). Once you verified that the new NTFS3 driver is available, you need to tell the system to use it. Check to see if NTFS3 is installed using: & echo "NTFS3 is here" Under Manjaro Linux you need version 5.15.2 or newer. Depending on the distribution, NTFS3 may not be available in the first version(s) of that release. What’s the point in using a closed-source, proprietary file system for storage? Using the New NTFS3 Driverįirst of all you need kernel release 5.15 or newer. I have not done any write speed tests and probably never will. However, it looks like the NTFS-3G driver is the better choice for read-heavy workloads on conventional disks. I will repeat the test to make sure there is no mistake. More noticeable are the difference in system CPU time where the new kernel driver uses up almost twice the CPU time. In this benchmark the good old NTFS-3G driver came out as the winner! Not by a big margin, but still. Xxhash read speed comparison between NTFS-3G and NTFS3 driver on RAID1 HDD drives Hardware: 2x Seagate 12TB Exos X16 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5″ Internal HDD The bottom line is that the new NTFS3 kernel improved read speed by 25% on a NVMe drive. Note: On my Manjaro Linux system, the -t ntfs option links to ntfs-3g: /bin/mount.ntfs -> /usr/bin/ntfs-3gįor the NTFS3 kernel driver: mount -t ntfs3 -o ro,iocharset=utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137,uid=$user,gid=$group /dev/mapper/vmvg-workdrive_snap /mnt/place-to-mountĪs you can see, some of the -o options have changed, others like windows_names are gone! Finally I entered the following commands to mount the NTFS partition:įor the NTFS-3G driver: mount -t ntfs -o ro,nls=utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137,uid=$user,gid=$group,windows_names /dev/mapper/vmvg-workdrive_snap /mnt/place-to-mount Then I mapped the Windows partitions on the snapshot using the kpartx mapper. Xxhash read speed comparison between NTFS-3G and NTFS3 driver on NVMe driveįirst I created a snapshot of the LVM volume. Hardware: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB NVMe driveįile system: Microsoft NTFS partition on LVM volume NTFS-3G driver In my first quick test I used a relatively small file system located on a Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB NVMe drive with only 365 GB of data to hash. xxhash Read Speed Test Using Different NTFS Drivers Since xxhash works at memory speed, any difference between using the NTFS3 kernel driver versus the NTFS-3G user space driver should be due to drive and driver performance. From time to time the file hash is recalculated and compared against the stored hash to detect data corruption through storage / media failure, bit rot, you name it. I've chosen the xxhash utility and the XXH128 hash since it is extremely fast while producing minimal collisions. The hash program reads the entire file(s) and calculates the hash value. For example hashing a 2.3TB file system on a HDD will take some 4 hours to finish. (I’ll probably post the scripts here soon.)ĭepending on the storage media and size, hashing an entire file system can take a long time. While I usually let others have fun with the early bugs that come along with new software releases, I felt I could give the NTFS3 driver a save trial in my new hash scripts. Most of us dealing with NTFS drives have installed and use the NTFS-3G driver. There is a 3rd driver available – simply NTFS – that was shipped as the standard NTFS driver on Linux, but it lacked support for many of the Microsoft NTFS features (like writing to disk). NTFS3 is not to be confused with NTFS-3G, a user space driver that employs the FUSE or “file system in user space” approach. ![]() This kernel driver was originally developed by Paragon Software as a commercial solution (more about the ntfs3 driver can be found on their FAQ page). Linux kernel release 5.15 introduced a new NTFS file system driver named NTFS3.
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