[OpenIndiana-discuss] ntfs-3g and fuse kernel module updates

[Jean-Pierre André]

A new version of ntfs-3g and the fuse kernel module is available on
http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/openindiana-ntfs-3g.html

The fuse kernel module can now cache the file attributes for not
hard-linked files, which brings its performance on par with other
OSes. Below are the measured times for compiling xz for Windows
on a triple-boot desktop. All the needed files (source and header
files) are stored in a shared NTFS partition, and the same
compiler is used. There were 90 source files to compile, each of
them including 20 to 30 header files.

The package was compiled twice on each OS, showing a difference
related to data page cacheing.

                             real       user        sys
Linux Fedora 21           0m10.811s   0m6.835s   0m2.374s
         same repeated      0m7.697s   0m6.448s   0m2.149s
Windows 10                0m11.484s
         same repeated      0m6.078s
OpenIndiana Hipster 2015   0m9.754s   0m5.962s   0m2.792s
         same repeated      0m7.660s   0m5.957s   0m2.758s

Jean-Pierre