[jharsman]

Presumably to find out whether the difference lies with the filesystem or somewhere else?

If Linux is still much faster, even with the same filesystem, you have eliminated one variable.

[buster]

Doing some profiling and system/kernel level analysis would be much saner, imo. What's the sense in measuring how some non-native filesystem behaves? In the end you'll be benchmarking how good is fuse-ntfs vs. in-kernel-ext4 and figuring it's slower... I say, profile some code and see how much time is spent in filesystem calls.

[rbanffy]

But then you'd be comparing NTFS implementations. The codebases are completely diffrent.