Beginners • Re: Improved NTFS Samba speed on RPi4 with USB drive

Why are you using NTFS on a Linux system?

My thoughts exactly. Samba clients don't care and don't know what the underlying filesystem on the server is. Using NTFS (or any onther non-Linux fielsystem) intriduces more problems than it solves. The Samba server does care. Indirectly at least as it is bound by the apparent Linux owner, group, and permissions of the on disc data.

But maybe the OP has/had a need to physically connect the drive(s) to a Windows box.

There are three drivers for NTFS on Linux:

• ntfs. That's old and read only.
• ntfs-3g. Newer but runs mostly outside the kernel and has slow write speeds.
• ntfs3. Latest in kernel driver. Much improved write performance.

Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Tue Jun 25, 2024 12:30 pm

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