FAT32 File-System Seeing as Much as 265x Improvement with Linux 7.4

Posted by Kevin_Flynn 6 hours ago

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Comment by cowlevel 2 hours ago

Thought that number sounded crazy, here's the important bit that explains it:

> Rather than doing many one-cluster allocations, the few lines of code makes it allocate multiple clusters in one call.

Comment by montjoy 1 hour ago

Since FAT32 doesn’t journal I wonder if this affects the chances for corrupting data.

Comment by vetrom 11 minutes ago

Considering the Linux block elevator, page cache, and write bundling, no more or less than any other non-journaled filesystem configuration on Linux.