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NTFS architecture has many advantages, but SPEED and thruput is NOT one of
them.
I went to Windows NT school.....I know.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: imacauslan@xxxxxxx [mailto:imacauslan@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 9:14 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx; nchrisc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: off topic: NT partition types
>
>
> Chris
> I'd highly recommend switching to NTFS file system. It has a number of
> advantages and should be faster except--possibly--on smaller partition
> hard disks. FAT is a dinosaur from DOS days, has no fault tolerance,
> stored its file directory in an extremely inefficient place on the disk
> (especially as disks got larger)and made obscenely inefficient use of
> disk space (again, especially as disks got larger). Then with Win95,
> Microsoft's elegant solution was "VFAT", a gross kludge of FAT to
> accomodate long filenames, and in a way that would be incompatible with
> IBM's OS/2 (which was at that time a pretty decent 32-bit OS, and hence
> potential threat to Microsoft). FAT was then "modernized" into its
> 32-bit incarnation, FAT32. Its principle advantage over FAT16 is it
> makes more efficent use of physical space on large disks. Great, you
> now no longer have a dinosaur. You have something capable of
> functioning, albeit with little grace, in the modern world. Say, a
> crocodile.
>
> Dump FAT.
> Ian
>
> ps: You can use NT's CONVERT utility to convert FAT16 to NTFS. If you
> want maximum flexibility I'd suggest getting Partition Magic-about $40.
> It lets you convert back and forth, adds FAT32 capability also, lets you
> resize partitions, etc. Very flexible.
>
>
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Subject: off topic: NT partition types
> > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:27:52 -0800
> > From: "Chris Cheatham" <nchrisc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I recently switched from win98 2nd ed. with Windows optimized
> FAT32 to NT4
> > SP5 for TS4. Everything is great except disk access is very
> slow -- pages
> > take much longer to load. I am wondering if it has something to do with
> > partition types -- curious what others feel are the most efficient.
> > Currently have NT and TS on a 4 gig FAT16 partition (64 K clusters) IDE.
> > Not interested in switching to SCSI -- just looking to get
> closer to what I
> > had before. I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on any of the
> following?
> >
> > 1. Would going to smaller partitions with smaller clusters
> increase speed?
> >
> > 2. Would putting TS on a FAT32 partition (using the Winternals
> FAT32 driver)
> > increase speed?
> > 2a. Could the FAT32 driver be slowing things down?
> >
> > 3. Is NTFS faster than FAT16 -- I have heard conflicting reports?
> >
> > 4. Would there be any significant speed increase by putting TS
> on a similar
> > 2nd physical drive?
> >
> > 5. Running all partitions as FAT32 except for NT seems a
> logical choice,
> > except that you cannot defrag the FAT32 partitions without
> going into 95/98.
> > Anyone know of a way to defrag a FAT32 disk from a DOS floppy or someway
> > without having a whole OS just for that purpose?
> > 5a. Any recommendations for NT defrag utilities in general?
> >
> > I realize a this issue goes away with NT2000, but I figure they
> need 6-12 mo
> > for others to find the bugs before I jump in. Any advice would be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Chris Cheatham
> > (reply to nchrisc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
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