FAT32 File-System Seeing as Much as 265x Improvement with Linux 7.4

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17 pointsKevin_Flynn3 comments

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.

Since FAT32 doesn’t journal I wonder if this affects the chances for corrupting data.

Considering the Linux block elevator, page cache, and write bundling, no more or less than any other non-journaled filesystem configuration on Linux.