/Spam/ [Xitami] Xitami performance regarding directory structures

Andris Kluga xitami@lists.xitami.org
Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:00:41 +0300


John Jonas wrote:

> One proviso on this.  My experience with XP is that it is extremly slow in
> dealing with large numbers of image files on a NTFS formatted volume. 
> Converting the volume to FAT-32 gets a really dramatic performance
> improvement.

Hope this helps.
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/50/

When Windows accesses a directory on an NTFS volume, it updates the 
LastAccess time stamp on each directory it detects. Therefore, if there 
are a large number of directories, this can affect performance.

   Andris