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0 pointsmasklinn4y ago0 comments

> It's an NTFS limitation, not any specific version of Windows.

I would guess their surprise is because the charts specifically show Win10 as being 100% slower than Win7 in the first chart, and still a good 30% slower in the best case (third chart).

That's not NTFS v other, that's Win7 v Win10, both on NTFS.

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naikrovek4y ago· 2 in thread

NTFS comes in different versions, you know.

I don't care what version of Windows you're on, or what version of NTFS you're on; NTFS is dog slow on small files.

I am not sure that NTFS has versioned between Windows 7 and Windows 10, so let's just assume that it hasn't.

If the limitations of the filesystem do not change between operating systems, then what must change is how the OS deals with the filesystem limitation, and/or attempts to work around them.

Windows 7 does better than Windows 10. That doesn't mean NTFS isn't slow.

masklinnOP4y ago

> NTFS comes in different versions, you know.

A completely pointless remark when versions of NTFS and Windows are correlated. And AFAIK there's been no updated to NTFS itself since the addition of symlinks in NTFS 3.1, released with Windows XP. All "filesystem features" since were added at the level OS, using existing NTFS features.

> If the limitations of the filesystem do not change between operating systems, then what must change is how the OS deals with the filesystem limitation, and/or attempts to work around them.

Yeees? Which would make the issue vary based on the specific version of Windows maybe?

> Windows 7 does better than Windows 10. That doesn't mean NTFS isn't slow.

No, but I never claimed such a thing. I'm just pointing out that your assertion that

> It's […] not any specific version of Windows.

is bullshit.

naikrovek4y ago

>> It's […] not any specific version of Windows.

> is bullshit.

No, it's not. NTFS is slow, even when it's running under Linux. NTFS has a very pronounced weakness, here.

Performance changing between Windows 7 and Windows 10 means that ON TOP OF NTFS there are other performance problems in Windows 10. It does not mean that it isn't an NTFS problem in the case of Windows 10 -- it means that it isn't ONLY an NTFS problem in the case of Windows 10. It's an NTFS problem in addition to whatever other things Windows 10 is screwing up, when compared to Windows 7.

The difference between Windows 7 and Windows 10 alone? Yes, that's entirely because of Windows 10 and not because of NTFS. There. I never disagreed with that.

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