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Date:	Sun, 27 Mar 2005 07:36:53 PST8
From:	"Bob" <2lvvuss02@sneakemail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Tweaking FAT32.IFS to Boost Performance

** Reply to message from "Ray Davison raydav@charter.net" on Fri, 25 Mar 2005
20:43:31 PST8

> > I have FAT32 on my system. The only performance problems I have had is with
> > large directories. FAT has always had a problem with a directory with many
> > files and FAT32 does not change that.
>
> Define "large" and "many". I have a FAT32 that is shared by DOS, OS/2
> and W98SE. It is about 30G. It contains all manner of stuff
> including several versions of Mozilla; one mail dir has over two
> hundred files.

I would not consider a directory with two hundred files a large directory. The
problem has nothing to do with the total amount of data on a drive only the
number of files in any single directory.

What is large? I don't know how many files are needed before the perform
problems starts when using FAT. I do know that one directory I was trying to
copy had about 50,000 files (which is no problem on NTFS, HPFS, and JFS) and it
did not complete copying to a FAT32 drive and I let the copy run about 10 hours
before giving up.

--
Robert Blair

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