Comments on: FullFAT 1.1.0 Coming Soon! http://blog.james.walms.co.uk/2010/02/02/fullfat-1-1-0-coming-soon/ James Walmsley's Blog Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:15:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: James http://blog.james.walms.co.uk/2010/02/02/fullfat-1-1-0-coming-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-2938 James Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:54:48 +0000 http://worm.me.uk/?p=293#comment-2938 Dan, The point of FullFAT is to be faster compared to other open-source drivers that are designed for embedded systems. FullFAT alone will never be as fast as a fully featured Linux system. Thats because Linux systems always have large amounts of memory to index the entire directory structures into a special tree. They also populate HASH table index's to make file lookups really fast. Plus linux has a really big caching system that speeds up disk access a lot. FullFAT enables some of these features for systems that have a bit of memory. FullFAT is still being integrated into ReactOS, and so very soon we'll have a Windows driver based on FullFAT which can directly replace Microsoft's own driver. When this is complete, I shall be interested to do some performance comparisons. James Dan,

The point of FullFAT is to be faster compared to other open-source drivers that are designed for embedded systems. FullFAT alone will never be as fast as a fully featured Linux system. Thats because Linux systems always have large amounts of memory to index the entire directory structures into a special tree. They also populate HASH table index’s to make file lookups really fast.

Plus linux has a really big caching system that speeds up disk access a lot.

FullFAT enables some of these features for systems that have a bit of memory.

FullFAT is still being integrated into ReactOS, and so very soon we’ll have a Windows driver based on FullFAT which can directly replace Microsoft’s own driver. When this is complete, I shall be interested to do some performance comparisons.

James

]]> By: Dan http://blog.james.walms.co.uk/2010/02/02/fullfat-1-1-0-coming-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-2931 Dan Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:10:09 +0000 http://worm.me.uk/?p=293#comment-2931 I think you need to create a linux build that runs on fullfat entirely, this would be the real test to see if it really is faster. Then you can compare load times of ubuntu in fat and ubuntu in fullfat? you may want to contact linux developers... Also you may wish to try the same with efs. I think you need to create a linux build that runs on fullfat entirely, this would be the real test to see if it really is faster.

Then you can compare load times of ubuntu in fat and ubuntu in fullfat? you may want to contact linux developers…

Also you may wish to try the same with efs.

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