<p><pre><code>   I believe that with good tuning and allocation 
   heuristics, FAT32 can outperform the far more complex
   filesystems (ext*, NTFS, etc.) widely believed to be
   superior. One idea I&#x27;ve never gotten around to testing
   out is to modify the Linux FAT driver and do some
   benchmarking.
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I don&#x27;t understand. Has anybody ever claimed that the more complex alternatives were actually faster?<p>NTFS and other filesystems that followed FAT32 are &quot;superior&quot; because they support things like journaling and more robust permissions... things that unavoidably incur (a least) a small performance hit.