Comment 4 for bug 431207

I have since upgraded to 10.04, both 64 and 32 bit. I haven't noticed the behaviour I described above since then. The mc in 10.04 really copies as fast as cp on the command line.

Regarding the filesystem type: I have all my external drives formated with ext3 and still mc on Ubuntu 8.04 used to copy data very slowly to external disk.

The problem with ntfs on older Linux boxes (I don't remember the versions anymore) happens when the ntfs cluster size != 4096, then things really are slooooooooooow. This is an ntfs driver problem I encountered while trying to backup the ntfs filesystem of a friend's computer to external usb disk. There are quite some descriptions of that bug if you search the web.