Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964913AbWAISZd (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:25:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964915AbWAISZd (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:25:33 -0500 Received: from master.soleranetworks.com ([67.137.28.188]:34963 "EHLO master.soleranetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964913AbWAISZc (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:25:32 -0500 Message-ID: <43C29316.4080300@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 09:45:10 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Oliver Neukum , Lee Revell , Bernd Petrovitsch , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time References: <5t06S-7nB-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <1136824149.5785.75.camel@tara.firmix.at> <1136824880.9957.55.camel@mindpipe> <200601091753.36485.oliver@neukum.org> <1136827900.6659.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1136827900.6659.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1155 Lines: 40 Alan Cox wrote: >On Llu, 2006-01-09 at 17:53 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > >>Does the Windows Explorer draw icons based only on name and metadata? >> >> > >Sort of. It also plays tricks on the human by working out what icons are >visible and loading those first then filling in while the user thinks it >is ready > > > And the mouse driver is biased to always get access to CPU cycles so the cursor will always be visible and working even when the system is totally locked up. NTFS performance is also totally abysimal when volumes reach 2TB sizes due to fragmentation of the NTFS archtiecture. A problem not shared with EXT3 FS's. J >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/