Author: Frank Meißen
Date: 04:52:21 01/10/01
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On January 10, 2001 at 00:06:22, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On January 09, 2001 at 20:56:17, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On January 09, 2001 at 19:12:23, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On January 09, 2001 at 19:08:43, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >>> >>>>On January 09, 2001 at 18:49:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hello, >>>>> >>>>>For partitions under NT2000 i can chose out of 2 >>>>>different formats: either NTFS or FAT32, >>>>> >>>>>I don't know exactly how the file systems internally work, >>>>>but i wonder about next >>>>> a) what is the difference between the 2 >>>>> b) what is the fastest file system to read and write huge >>>>> files (several gigabytes: about 2.5 gigabyte) with? >>>>> >>>>>Thanks, >>>>>Vincent >>>> >>>>FAT32 is faster than NTFS, but NTFS is much more robust. I'd recommend NTFS >>>>despite it relative slowness. >>> >>>If you boost the cluster size for NTFS aren't they about the same? >> >>No. I believe (and that's from my memory, so of course I can be wrong) that when >>you are writing something to NTFS disk OS is doing something to protect the >>metadata, i.e. either writing it to disk immediately, or writing the transaction >>into the transaction log on the disk, or doing something similar. That means >>that it's much harder to totally lose the information in the case of power or >>some other failure, but also means that all the writes are much slower than for >>the FAT[32] case. >> >>All journal/logging file systems have that speed disadvantage, not only NTFS. > >It is possible to turn all the I/O logging off under Win2k though, isn't it? > >I believe I read this somewhere, and there was a registry patch that supposedly >did this, but I still don't know quite enough about the internal workings of the >OS to know whether it did anything. Look at http://win2000tips.home.att.net/Tipstricks.htm#Turn Diskpref Off: Frank
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