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All I want is a completely new, Unix like file system. Speed sucks in windows, bringing down my patience.
by prakhargurunani 5y ago
All I want is a completely new, Unix like file system. Speed sucks in windows, bringing down my patience.
- Strom 5y agoThe primary slowdown factor on Windows is not the filesystem itself but Windows Defender doing its scans. Just disable it and file operations will be a lot faster.
- andai 5y agoAlso the search indexer.
- infogulch 5y agoI don't understand how the search indexer consumes so much resources, I was able to make something faster by following the ntfs journal and just keeping a full listing of files in sqlite.
- radus 5y agoEspecially considering that it's still somehow pretty bad at finding things that you know are there.
- Tempest1981 5y agoIsn't it also opening each file, to extract text, EXIF data, etc?
- infogulch 5y agoFor me it has maybe a 10% success rate for searching strings within files. Yet it takes minutes to search for file names even when spelled exactly. Finding files by name is the primary use-case, maybe optimize for that first.
- MaxikCZ 5y agoI use Everything to find stuff, so much better
- IAmMaulik 5y agoOMG that's for the tip!!
- prakhargurunani 5y agoTransfer times are definitely high in windows when compared to linux systems. I don't think Windows defender may affect file transfer directly.
- Strom 5y agoWindows Defender has a massive impact on file transfers, especially small files. For example on my laptop with a NVMe SSD, unpacking the Golang zip file goes from seconds to minutes with Windows Defender enabled.
- Macha 5y agoIf that was the case, would we not expect NTFS on Linux to be better, or at least competitive with other Linux filesystems?
- Strom 5y agoNot necessarily, because for that comparison to work you would need a proper NTFS driver. Does one such even exist for Linux? Looking at the Debian wiki [1] there's either a FUSE driver or a limited feature set kernel driver. Neither looks like a proper optimized "enterprise ready" driver. These work fine for accessing some files, but comparing these in a benchmark would no doubt show their weakness. Now even if NTFS is inherently a slower architecture than ext4 or something, that does not change the fact that this difference would be minimal compared to the absolute horror show that is the Windows Defender slowdown. -- [1] https://wiki.debian.org/NTFS https://wiki.debian.org/NTFS
- rofrol 5y agohttps://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-NTFS3-v22-Driver https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-NT...