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0 pointsm_mueller2mo ago0 comments

Afaik a lot of it is ntfs. It’s just so slow with lots of small files. Compare unzipping moderately large source repos on windows vs. POSIX, it’s day and night.

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p_ing2mo ago

No, it’s not NTFS, it’s the file system filter architecture of the NT kernel.

mattbee2mo ago

I had internalised that it was Windows Defender hooking every file operation and checking it against a blacklist? I've had it forced off for years.

p_ing2mo ago

Windows Defender is a file system filter which you cannot disable. You may have others (but they're fortunately rare, now).

All that said, you cannot disable the architecture, i.e. bypass the file system filter code.

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zer0zzz2mo ago

This guy gets it. Yes bingo. It's the VFS' filters/ACLs support afaik.

PaulHoule2mo ago

Just deleting 40,000 files from the node_modules of a modest Javascript project can thoroughly hammer NTFS.

fluoridation2mo ago

I think part of that is Explorer, rather than NTFS. Try doing it from the console instead. rd /q /s <dir>.

PaulHoule2mo ago

It still takes a lot longer than Linux or Mac OS X.

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p_ing2mo ago

No, it’s not NTFS, it’s the file system filter architecture of the NT kernel.

mattbee2mo ago

I had internalised that it was Windows Defender hooking every file operation and checking it against a blacklist? I've had it forced off for years.

p_ing2mo ago

Windows Defender is a file system filter which you cannot disable. You may have others (but they're fortunately rare, now).

All that said, you cannot disable the architecture, i.e. bypass the file system filter code.

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zer0zzz2mo ago

This guy gets it. Yes bingo. It's the VFS' filters/ACLs support afaik.

PaulHoule2mo ago

Just deleting 40,000 files from the node_modules of a modest Javascript project can thoroughly hammer NTFS.

fluoridation2mo ago

I think part of that is Explorer, rather than NTFS. Try doing it from the console instead. rd /q /s <dir>.

PaulHoule2mo ago

It still takes a lot longer than Linux or Mac OS X.

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