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> That Windows still after 25 years of the NT architecture has a file system that doesn't scale is not something most tooling in the web ecosystem doesn't conce
by User23 4y ago
> That Windows still after 25 years of the NT architecture has a file system that doesn't scale is not something most tooling in the web ecosystem doesn't concern itself with.
This isn't exactly true. It's not so much that NTFS is slow, it's that it's not optimized for the usage patterns that Linux's FS is. That being said, it's certainly possible to have high IO performance on Windows if you know what you're doing.
- MBCook 4y agoRight. Creating and deleting thousands of tiny files and directories isn’t something it was designed to be fast at. But that’s exactly what NPM does.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agontfs is straight up bad. the way you get high performance io on windows is by inventing your own file system and dumping all the data into the same file because ntfs hasn't figured out how to make your ssd slower (yet).
- bitwize 4y agoWait, you mean you don't run your system off a huge RAM disk and only periodically commit to permanent storage? Do you even know how to Windows? :)