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RE: Handling very large instance docs

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• Subject: RE: Handling very large instance docs
• From: "Clayton Duffek" <clayton.duffek@T...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:44:22 -0400
• Thread-index: AcQu1xsWcWslNfTTRUq6FYABDni++gAC+M1A
• Thread-topic: Handling very large instance docs

An unfortunate occurrence with many documents in XP is that the Master File Table (MTF) continually grows.  See the report the Defragmenter gives.  It does not shrink when files are deleted. One needs a special tool for that.

Clayton.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Brown [mailto:alex@x...] 
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 1:19 PM
To: Michael Kay; xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  Handling very large instance docs


> At one time Windows NT used to blue-screen if you tried to put more 
> than 65,535 files in a directory. Perhaps they've fixed that by now, 
> but I wouldn't bank on it.

For NTFS this isn't a problem; for FAT32 it is. See http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp

Large numbers of files in a folder/directory can cause problems for some older *nix filesystems too...

- Alex.



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