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Funny, I just went back and edited my comment to add in filesystem where I didn't have it before and then saw your reply.

Because, yes, NTFS is just slow as hell. I have never been clear why but as I said elsewhere, various *nix filesystems have always outperformed it. I understand that on paper NTFS was technically superior back when Linux was stuck with ext2 & ext3 as standard, but in practice it just made for a really slow system.




Have you ever seen IFS (Installable File System) SDK for Windows and the associated documentation? And then compared that, for example to linux vfs?

No wonder that so few people tried. They can spend their time on something simpler, like on building a highway bridge to Hawaii or something.




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