FAT32 File-System Seeing as Much as 265x Improvement with Linux 7.4
Kevin_Flynn
16 points
3 comments
October 29, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
cowlevel
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
Since FAT32 doesn’t journal I wonder if this affects the chances for corrupting data.