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by gouranga 5127 days ago
It's pretty negligible. I genuinely can't tell the difference between NTFS and ext3 at least performance-wise.

However, the locking semantics on NTFS are shitty unless you know what you are doing (i.e. use KTM/Transactional NTFS) which sometimes skews the statistics a lot.