Re: Lots of files

Patrick Dean Rusk wrote:

> That said, this discussion does get me thinking about a possible
> performance enhancement in combining some of those administrative files.
> I'll raise it on the Developer's list.

That would be a Good Thing(TM)!

>
> BTW, I checked one of my ".svn/dir-prop-base" files and it was 187 bytes
> taking up 4096 bytes on disk. It would seem like the MFT entry size on my
> laptop's disk might actually be 4K. I'm a bit surprised by that.

I think the default blocksize depends on the version of the OS you are
running as well as the size of the partition in question. I can say
that having a larger blocksize than most of your small files (e.g.
email) can noticebly improve performance. When I was still running a
Win32 email server, I used a 8192 (or what is 4096) byte blocksize for
better performance and didn't worry too much about the slack space.

John

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