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Does it read the ntfs journal? Because that's really what makes everything, everything. It makes me wish I used a journaling filesystem on Linux too.
by zacmps 3y ago
Does it read the ntfs journal? Because that's really what makes everything, everything.
It makes me wish I used a journaling filesystem on Linux too.
- lelanthran 3y agoI'm pretty certain that everything doesn't use the NTFS journal[1]. My understanding is that everything uses the file open hooks provided for antivirus to maintain the index, which is why it appears instant. Adding a millisecond to each open call is imperceptible to the user, and it takes less time than that if you return immediately and process the index update in the background. [1] happy to be proven wrong.
- tambourine_man 3y agoYou don’t? What do you run Linux on? The default Ext4 is journaled