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The 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 fast
by Strom 5y ago
The 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...