#NT and video cards.
08-Jul-95 07:31:00
Sb: #178960-#NT and video cards.
Fm: Jonas Ruikis [ADESK] 73172,1351
To: Dennis Fenske 72163,3252
Hi Dennis,
<< Is it better to use the NTFS as opposed the the DOS FAT? >>
It's my understanding that NTFS can be several orders of magnitude faster in
searching a filestructure for a particular file due to it's use of a binary
tree indexing scheme. It was explained once to me that if a FAT system had 1M
files and you happened to be searching for the last file, it would sequencially
check each entry in the FAT until it found the 1Mth file. However, with NTFS,
there would be 12 queries before it found it.
jonas[adesk]