In Windows, is there an easy way to tell if a folder has a subfile that has changed? I verified, and the last modified date on the folder does not get updated when a subfile changes. Is there a registry entry I can set that will modify this behavior? If it matters, I am using an NTFS volume. I would ultimately like to have this abil...
Which built in (if any) tool can I use to determine the allocation unit size of a certain NTFS partition ? ...
A product that I am working on collects several thousand readings a day and stores them as 64k binary files on a NTFS partition (Windows XP). After a year in production there is over 300000 files in a single directory and the number keeps growing. This has made accessing the parent/ancestor directories from windows explorer very time c...
Hello guys, I want to mount some internal and external NTFS drives in CentOS 5.2, preferably automatically upon boot-up. Doesn't matter if it's read/write or read-only, but read/write would be preferred, if it's safe. Edit: Thanks for all answers, I summarized them below =) ...
When an ASP.NET application is running under IIS6.0 in Windows 2003 Server with impersonation, what user account is relevant for deciding file read/write/execute access privileges? I have two scenarios where I am trying to understand what access to grant/revoke. I thought the most relevant user is probably the identity specified in the...
On NTFS there is a nice but mostly unused feature called "Alternate Data Streams" (ADS) which I recently used in a hobby-dev project. I am thinking of porting this project to Linux, but I do not know if any Filesystem on linux has such a feature? ...
How does Windows with NTFS perform with large volumes of files and directories? Is there any guidance around limits of files or directories you can place in a single directory before you run into performance problems or other issues? e.g. is a folder with 100,000 folders inside of it an ok thing to do ...
Ok, so at some point in time, somebody checked in some files with names that require a case sensitive file system into the trunk of a repository that I constantly check out. This of course leads to my local working copy locking up when I try to check it out (on my Windows computer). Is there any way that I can set my local subversion c...
Would NTFS allocation blocks of 16KB or 32KB make compile time faster in comparison to the default 4KB? ...
I'm looking for the .NET/C# way of performing Change Journal Operations (without importing unmanaged code). Any hints or RTFM-links? ...
Quick and simple question which I need the answer to. I'm designing a database table which will hold filenames of uploaded files. What is the maximum length of a filename in NTFS; aka Windows XP or Vista? Many Thanks ...
I'm running an ASP.NET web site on IIS 6.0 (Windows 2003), and the site uses "integrated windows authentication". The IWA configuration is not a must (until now), but is configured anyway. The application pool runs as the "Network Service". Also, in web.config, there's the line "". The problem I'm facing now is that there's a new request...
I have a folder in NTFS that contains tens of thousands of files. I've deleted all files in that folder, save 1. I ran contig.exe to defragment that folder so now it's in 1 fragment only. However, the size of that folder is still 8MB in size. This implies that there's a lot of gap in the index. Why is that? If I delete that one file, the...
In the Oracle world, it's been gospel to build your database block size to be even multiples of the File system's block size. I assume this is still true but I'm not adverse to being told why technology has made this irrelevant. But I've been told some SQL Server DBA's are going to upgrade the OS of a SS2000 installation to 64bit to get...
If it does, then how do you justify the overheads incurred (journaling etc.)? If it does not, then how come the pagefile gets fragmented? Additionally, would increasing the cluster size improve pagefile performance (cluster slack space is a non-issue)? ...
How do you traverse a folder structure using C# without falling into the trap of junction points? ...
Hello everybody, I am thinking hard about how to play with access rights on several platforms. Now I am reaching Microsoft Windows and permissions on NTFS files/directories. I must say that I am working in C language. My question is pretty general. I have a username and a file path. Do I need more information to check if the user has ...
I keep finding files which show a size of 10kb but a size on disk on 10gb. Trying to figure out how this is done, anyone have any ideas? ...
My function is pretty much a standard search function... I've included it below. In the function I have 1 line of code responsible for weeding out Repart NTFS points. if (attributes.ToString().IndexOf("ReparsePoint") == -1) The problem is now I am getting an error Access to the path 'c:\System Volume Information' is denied. I debu...
I got the impression from the MacFUSE site that when you install it and connect an NTFS volume it will be writable. However, the volume I mounted is read only. Here is some of the output of mount... The NTFS external USB drive I'm talking about: /dev/disk1s1 on /Volumes/SATA160 (local, nodev, nosuid, read-only) An OS X format externa...