FAT32 File-System Seeing as Much as 265x Improvement with Linux 7.4 (phoronix.com) 1 points by Kevin_Flynn 2d ago ↗ HN
[–] cowlevel 2d 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.
[–] montjoy 2d ago ↗ Since FAT32 doesn’t journal I wonder if this affects the chances for corrupting data. [–] vetrom 2d ago ↗ Considering the Linux block elevator, page cache, and write bundling, no more or less than any other non-journaled filesystem configuration on Linux.
[–] vetrom 2d ago ↗ Considering the Linux block elevator, page cache, and write bundling, no more or less than any other non-journaled filesystem configuration on Linux.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 12.4 ms ] thread> Rather than doing many one-cluster allocations, the few lines of code makes it allocate multiple clusters in one call.