From: "Frank Haber" 

Sooooo...  A client downloaded a 270MB gzip containing over ONE MILLION
little files (security-threat database, I think).  It unzipped fine on 2000
to an 80GB NTFS extended-partition D: disk.  Only took FOUR FR***IN HOURS. 
Then he turned on Windows indexing, figuring he'd use it for some kind of
bastard full-text search.  FOUR DAYS later, he gave up, and I stopped the
indexing service for him.  For kicks, I deleted the database's subtree with
Explorer (empty disk, otherwise virtually unused).  Next time I'm going to
format the sucker, but hey, anything for science.

So, Geo, what did you say you did to shrink the 1.5G 99% empty MFT we're
now blessed with?  So they say XP is a bit better with this stuff?


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-frh

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