Re: Performance on 8CPU's and 32GB of RAM

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:36 -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On 9/5/07, Trevor Talbot <quension(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On 9/5/07, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > On 9/5/07, Carlo Stonebanks <stonec(dot)register(at)sympatico(dot)ca> wrote:
> > > > > Right, additionally NTFS is really nothing to use on any serious disc
> > > > > array.
> > > > Do you mean that I will not see any big improvement if I upgrade the disk
> > > > subsystem because the client is using NTFS (i.e. Windows)

I haven't had a corrupt NTFS filesystem is ages; even with hardware
failures. If NTFS was inherently unstable there wouldn't be hundreds of
thousands of large M$-SQL and Exchange instances.

> And there's the issue that with windows / NTFS that when one process
> opens a file for read, it locks it for all other users.

This isn't true; the mode of a file open is up to the application.
Possibly lots of Windows applications are stupid or sloppy in how they
manage files but that isn't a flaw in NTFS.

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