Data Storage - Re: Increasing disk performance with many small files (NTFS/ Windows roaming profiles)

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Re: Increasing disk performance with many small files (NTFS/ Windows roaming profiles)

Marc de Vries

2004-07-20, 2:45 am

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:45:09 GMT, "Ron Reaugh"
<ron-reaugh@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

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>"Benno..." <0@0.invalid> wrote in message
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>Try the same experiment twice, once pushing(xcopy on server) the file set
>and once pulling(xcopy on workstation) the fileset.

Good idea. But I wonder if the roaming profile copy operations will be
that effective in copying. I expect that it behaves more like a normal
copy.
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Seems like the network doesn't like all those small files either. I'm
not sure if or how you can improve the situation there. You'll need
some network guys for that.

Marc