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This is pretty great. I've been wanting to make a simple utility that can scan an NTFS drive for a filename pattern; scanning the MFT is incredibly fast versus

by adzm 3y ago

This is pretty great. I've been wanting to make a simple utility that can scan an NTFS drive for a filename pattern; scanning the MFT is incredibly fast versus using the actual filesystem API calls to do so.

gregschlom 3y ago
Sounds exactly like Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/) - do check it out if you're not aware of this tool.
- worewood 3y ago
  Everything is one of those things that are so obvious that it hurts it's not offered by default on operating systems (even Linux and Mac). Why go the effort to index the files in a filesystem when the filesystem IS an index in itself? Just query it directly
  - Moomoomoo309 3y ago
    The locate or mlocate command does that on Mac/Linux.