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Performance of file operations on thousands of files on NTFS vs HFS, ext3, others

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[Crossposted from my Ask HN post. Feel free to close it if the question's too broad for superuser.] This is something I've been curious about for years, but I've never found any good discussions on the topic. Of course, my Google-fu might just be failing me... I often deal with projects involving t…

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I'm not an HFS expert, but I've looked into NTFS and ext3 filesystems. It sounds like you should consider two things. First,the ext2/3/4 file systems pre-allocate the areas on-disk for storing file metadata (permissions, ownership, the blocks or ext…

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