Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 07:07:52 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: overlay programs [LIB]
At 10:50 AM 2/05/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 00:44:39 +0700 >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: overlay programs [LIB] > > > Microsoft says that NTFS performs better > >It's primarily a speed advantage? >Is there a vague "rule-of-thunb" figure for how much? NTFS uses a different file indexing structure to your standard FAT12/16/32 which means that disk fragmentation doesn't affect index lookup times as much (although it will still affect contiguous disk access times) and random index lookups (eg. tell me where the 4356581'th byte of this file is NOW!) are significantly faster. It also does a lot of other stuff for security and bookkeeping so *in theory* you won't need other recovery tools. In practice however if things do go pear shaped for reasons NOT relating to the file system (eg. someone deleting a file, virus, badly behaved program, your libby crashing, overheat shutdowns, etc.) and the file system gets corrupted or you otherwise need to work with it, its a complete pain in the backside. Besides all that extra junk more than cancels out the speed increase on a slower machine like the libby IMHO. For a powerful desktop where you're doing a lot of disk work then ya I can see how NTFS *might* be an advantage but even on my desktop I keep all my critical stuff on FAT32 ... if my Win2k installation dies and I have something that must be done in the next 3 hours, I can still flip over to 98 and keep going where I left off. Lets see you do THAT with recovery console ;-) - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
