Am 27.11.2010 18:53, schrieb Henry Vermaak: > Also, the features of the filesystems > are so different, you can't even compare them. fat and ntfs are stuck > in the dark ages compared to ext*.
Modern NTFS implementations have some really nice and advanced features none of the ext* has: snapshoting (saves file server admins a lot of time :)) and transactions. I guess especially snapshotting makes ntfs slow: CoW semantics simply requires a lot of coping of files and fragments probably the disc. I made a similiar experience with btrfs (whsich has CoW semantics by default as well) on linux, working with fpc on a btrfs partition made fpc really slow. I didn't test further by turning off CoW for btrfs, but it might be reason. One thing which might help on ntfs: turn off atime, see e.g. http://oreilly.com/pub/a/windows/2005/02/08/NTFS_Hacks.html -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
