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Bad NTFS performance

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202610705 views
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Why is it that NTFS performance is so lousy compared to, for example, Linux/ext3? Most often I see this when checking out (large) source trees from Subversion. Checkout takes around 10-15 minutes on NTFS, while corresponding checkout on Linux (on almost identical hardware) takes an order of magnitu…

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Fix for: Bad NTFS performance

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NTFS has this thing called a Master File Table. It sounds really cool when you read about it. You can see that ext3 performs alright up to about 95% disk use, while the existence of the MFT means that NTFS doesn't really want you to use more than 90…

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