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Re: To RISC OS Programmer: What is a good philosophy for Creating an Operating System?

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          Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I get that when my SSD fills up (animé, mostly!). There should be a lot 
> less issue of defragmentation lag on a solid state drive, so WTF does 
> NTFS think it needs to spend *ages* at a time (from 10-15 seconds to an 
> entire minute) blocking the entire machine, with the HDD light solidly 
> on, to achieve, well, nothing as far as I can determine...

I've got an EEE PC with a SSD, I found that NTFS was appallingly slow, but
formatting the drive as FAT32 gets rid of the delays.

Not saying NTFS is bad per se, but it's got far more features than FAT32,
eg journalling, so it's not surprising it's slower.

-- 
Rik Griffin
Standard disclaimer, not speaking for anyone but myself, blah blah
(Reply-To may be broken: use rik dot griffin at denbridge marine dot com)

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To RISC OS Programmer: What is a good philosophy for Creating an Operating System? Nick Mudge <mudgen@gmail.com> - 2011-11-13 19:58 -0800
  Re: To RISC OS Programmer: What is a good philosophy for Creating an Operating System? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-15 19:01 +0100
    Re: To RISC OS Programmer: What is a good philosophy for Creating an Operating System? Mister Ron <mrronman@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-15 10:45 -0800
      Re: To RISC OS Programmer: What is a good philosophy for Creating an Operating System? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-16 06:00 +0100
        Re: To RISC OS Programmer: What is a good philosophy for Creating an Operating System? Rik Griffin <nospam@denbridgemarine.com> - 2011-11-16 10:19 +0000
          Re: To RISC OS Programmer: What is a good philosophy for Creating an Operating System? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-17 18:11 +0100

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