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[20070413] NTFS support sped up with ntfs-3g 1.328
The latest ntfs-3g release officially supports NetBSD and pkgsrc, and it also has a number of performance improvements:
     COPIED         ntfs-3g-1.0  ntfs-3g-1.320-RC
    47251456   6%    14.91MB/s       16.93MB/s
    82116608  10%    11.68MB/s       15.52MB/s
   161447936  21%    10.95MB/s       11.62MB/s
   232718336  30%     8.28MB/s       13.55MB/s
   305463296  40%     4.33MB/s       12.74MB/s
   379387904  50%     2.21MB/s        9.78MB/s
   455671808  60%     1.45MB/s       12.66MB/s
   531693568  70%     0.95MB/s        9.95MB/s
   607453184  80%     0.59MB/s       11.64MB/s
   758628864 100%     1.40MB/s       11.43MB/s

 Time spent:           0:08:37         0:01:03
 Fragments (extents):     3129             143

Tiotest numbers with 4 threads give also an order improvement in similar 
conditions (0.782 MB/s vs 7.6 MB/s).  
The package in pkgsrc/filesystems/fuse-ntfs-3g is already updated. Enjoy!

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