/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