From: Mark Parker [mailto:mark@msdhub.com]
>
> As for my question, does anyone actually have anything but rumours,
> general bad feelings, and someone-told-me-once anecdotes verifying
> that NTFS is really so bad at handling lots of files? The only
> people with real first-hand experience that have responded here have
> both said that they have no problems with this sort of situation
> (I'm one of those, I have directories with more than 270,000 files
> in them, and I have seen nothing to make me worried).
As I understand NTFS directories are B-trees or something similar, so
there is no reason why you should be worried.
My vague experiences suggesting otherwise have to do with the W2K
recycle bin (moving to a loaded recycle bin can be painfully slow),
and temporary internet files. But those are probably Windows
Explorer's fault, not the filesystem's.
The other issue is handling small files.
I remember reading about a filesystem for Linux storing small files
directly in the inode, perhaps even storing multiple files, directory
entries and all, in a single disk block. Alas I can't remember which
filesystem it was, or if it was production-ready. The point is that
there is no such thing as *the* Unix file system, and it may be
possible to find one that is particularly SVN-working-copy-friendly.
- Anders
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Received on Fri Apr 29 10:05:58 2005