On 07/08/2020 17:19, Haines Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:57:18PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng wrote:
>
>> It is extremely slow, but I am unsure just how slow, but 3-4 times slower
>> sounds about right.
> Wow!
>
>> If the drive is never plugged into a Windows machine, then there is no point
>> in it being formatted as NTFS.
> I do not have clients. I'm well past life expectancy, and so I need to
> know that my grandchildren can simply plug the drive into a Windows
> machine or Mac to access the files.

Ah, that is different and I asked that ;-)

If you are going to move the USB drive about, then, from a Windows point
of view, you are going to have to stick to NTFS and put up with the slow
speed, not sure about the Macs, I think they have their own version of
ntfs-3g.

>
>> , but it would be better formatted with ext4 or another Linux
>> filesystem.
> Yes, for sure. If you are right about the speed difference between
> NTFS and ext4, then is there another FS that can be accessed by a
> Windows machine that is not much slower than ext4?

Windows being Windows, you are stuck with NTFS or exfat etc

You could always set up Samba and share the files with that, that would
allow you to use ext4 and all your clients (grandchildren) should be
able to connect to the shares, that I can help you set up.

Life expectancy is what you make it and I am catching up ;-)

Rowland