From: "Frank Haber" 

>Why did your client give up?

I'm not quite sure.   As I understand it, this db was an already-indexed
?MySQL thing.  Databases are not my thing.  A programmer just wanted to play
with the file format and see what he could make of it.  I don't know what
Windows tools he had at his disposal there - the client's stuff is all
runtime on his machines.

Expanding the Gzip yielded 1.8G of files, in hundreds of subdirs.  Four
hours to extract the archive was tolerable.  Four days of nearly continuous
disk activity seemed a bit much for an idle curiosity projects.  The
machine is a 900MHz PIII, 512k.

My primary interest was the MFT expansion.  Since you've brought up the
index-every-file subsystem....

o I gather it's faster under XP?

o I gather there are some enhancements to the filesystem under XP that
reduce the impact of these pathological cases?

o I'll follow your discussion with Gregg with interest.

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