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That’s probably part of it, but NTFS has just been slow forever and ever. Anything involving lots of small files is just pain. Perhaps it seems “normal” for any
by boardwaalk 5y ago
That’s probably part of it, but NTFS has just been slow forever and ever. Anything involving lots of small files is just pain. Perhaps it seems “normal” for anyone used to Explorer progress dialogs, but it’s not.
And Microsoft just doesn’t seem to care :-(.
- naikrovek 5y agoThey care, as much as a group of people without a mind of its own can care, but it's a use case that was not common among windows software when NTFS was designed. Other design considerations were more important than high performance while writing or reading 1 million small files per minute.