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Diffstat (limited to 'sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/files/pkg-message.in')
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diff --git a/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/files/pkg-message.in b/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/files/pkg-message.in index f3abf199d3f8..653445f93ccc 100644 --- a/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/files/pkg-message.in +++ b/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/files/pkg-message.in @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ To give an idea about tuning, here are the default values with some notes (they are only based on some simple benchmarks, and may be wrong): NTFS_USE_UBLIO - 1. Disabling it drastically decreases performance. -UBLIO_BLOCKSIZE - 1048576 (1MB). Larger improves reading/writing speed of +UBLIO_BLOCKSIZE - 262144 (256KB). Larger improves reading/writing speed of large files, and smaller makes filesystem operations (creation, deletion, moving, find(1)) perform faster. Try 2/4MB and 512/256KB for the different approaches. Note @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ For example (improves performance over large files): # env UBLIO_BLOCKSIZE=2097152 ntfs-3g /dev/ad0s1 /mnt +Alternatively these variables could be set in the shell startup file. For +example if you are using it in /etc/fstab add it to /etc/profile. In that +case, use "ntfs-3g" as the type. + It is also possible to enforce block aligned I/O on regular files by setting the FORCE_ALIGNED_IO variable (it will be set to 512 bytes), but this is only useful for testing purposes and in practice has no use. @@ -37,4 +41,8 @@ Note that higher values for UBLIO_BLOCKSIZE and UBLIO_ITEMS increase the memory usage by their product in bytes. By default it consumes 64MB. To decrease it to 16MB set UBLIO_BLOCKSIZE to 256KB for example. +When doing many simultaneous file operations sometimes one of them fails. The +greater UBLIO_BLOCKSIZE is, more chances this has to happen. Small values like +4096 also work fine. + ============================================================================== |