alt Hacker NewsAfaik 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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PaulHoule • yesterday at 7:17 PM
Just deleting 40,000 files from the node_modules of a modest Javascript project can thoroughly hammer NTFS.
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No, it’s not NTFS, it’s the file system filter architecture of the NT kernel.