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Once you get above about a million files on NTFS, life becomes very slow. If you use a DVCS and check out a bunch of projects with a bunch of history, you can e
by RyJones 12y ago
Once you get above about a million files on NTFS, life becomes very slow. If you use a DVCS and check out a bunch of projects with a bunch of history, you can easily get to a point where you can't do too much with the drive. This was true as of 7/2008, perhaps 8/2012 have different/better tunings.
- ygra 12y agoNumber of files on the drive shouldn't matter that much, actually. In a single folder is a different matter, of course (for that you definitely want to disable 8.3 compatibility). But the only way I can imagine right now where the number of files on the drive makes a difference would be where you crammed the drive almost full, resulting in a very fragmented MFT (normally the file system tries to keep space for growing the MFT, but not if you try to fill that space with data, too).