The Linux v. Windows...err, I can't really call it a "debate"...discussion? Let's go with that. Well anyway, can we let that die or move it elsewhere?
I'm much more interested in Tuxera's prestidigitation. To be sure, I'd love to know what's going on here, and why what he said in the mailing lists doesn't seem to match up with what they're publishing on their very own website (which no one here seems to have visited?). To wit:
Immediately, we see they're rather fond of embedded markets, so that answers that question (again). More pressing, as we all no doubt expected, they reveal very little about their testing methodology.
From the outset, I find the LKML posts kind of immature, but I'm truly mystified that the information Tuxera themselves have provided as marketing material doesn't line up with the claims that have been made by a developer(?).
We simply don't have enough information to even make a hypothesis.
I'm much more interested in Tuxera's prestidigitation. To be sure, I'd love to know what's going on here, and why what he said in the mailing lists doesn't seem to match up with what they're publishing on their very own website (which no one here seems to have visited?). To wit:
Immediately, we see they're rather fond of embedded markets, so that answers that question (again). More pressing, as we all no doubt expected, they reveal very little about their testing methodology.
- They claim their NTFS driver consumes less CPU time than Ext3, but not by how much. It could easily be within margin of error, even.
- They make cursory effort at showing multiple test profiles, but the final test is mostly worthless because of the contrived synthetic nature of a RAM disk and 100% CPU time.
- They say nothing of the number of runs, have no error bars, and don't specify what kind of operation is happening. Marketing graphs have a tendency to be misleading in my experience.
- They make a lot of words about what they're doing, but they gloss over the technicalities. What version of NTFS is supported? Are these tests run with all features enabled?
From the outset, I find the LKML posts kind of immature, but I'm truly mystified that the information Tuxera themselves have provided as marketing material doesn't line up with the claims that have been made by a developer(?).
We simply don't have enough information to even make a hypothesis.
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