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I do think that talk is way too kind to the windows design. they're trying to make the argument that windows filesystem isn't slow, but the talk is how fixing t
by adgjlsfhk1 2y ago
I do think that talk is way too kind to the windows design. they're trying to make the argument that windows filesystem isn't slow, but the talk is how fixing the problem took 3 months of optimization and direct help from Microsoft. all of this could be avoided if Microsoft made their filesystem not ridiculously slow
- p_ing 2y agoNTFS/ReFS are not slow. But there is an extensible file system filter layer above them that can slow things down.
- ormax3 2y agomicrosoft introduced Dev drives for this reason, they are optimized such that no file system filters are attached https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
- creatonez 2y agoI thought by filters they quite literally mean the antivirus filters in Defender? Does it strip down some of the Windows file semantics too?
- p_ing 2y agoFile system filters are pluggable kernel drivers. For example, ProcMon (Sysinternals tool) monitors file systems via a file system filter -- so fun fact, if you outright disable file system filters on a ReFS volume, you won't get any ProcMon results! This was a 'duh' moment for me. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ifs/about-file-system-filter-drivers https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/i...