On 3/17/2014 5:40 AM, Bert Huijben wrote:
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> And updating these attributes one at a time during checkout would be huge (not a small) performance killer during checkout, as both operations would be updating the MFT.
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> We should try to perform as much operations as possible while having the files open anyway, as each file open (which at the kernel level includes operations as setting properties) will involve virus scanners, etc.
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> With the current trunk code the best solution might be to just remove the setting of the 'don't index' property, as the current code already moves the files in place while still open and 100% locked from indexers.
> (Those indexers really slowed us down on Windows XP and 7 around the time that we introduced this flag as the indexer opened the file between us creating and moving the file)
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> Bert
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As far as the ACLs, I think Windows Explorer uses this technique, so if
it causes problems with scanners, these problems happen just working
with files in Explorer too.
It is more complexity, but you could check if the 'attributes' are
incorrect and only make the API call if there is something to change.
Thus, only those users affected by the problem incur any decrease in
performance.
(This is assuming the API's in question are not already optimized for
this case; if I recall correctly, I don't think these kinds of APIs edit
the modified date in any case, for example.)
Received on 2014-03-17 12:50:09 CET