Comment by m_mueller
12 hours ago
Afaik a lot of it is ntfs. It’s just so slow with lots of small files. Compare unzipping moderately large source repos on windows vs. POSIX, it’s day and night.
12 hours ago
Afaik a lot of it is ntfs. It’s just so slow with lots of small files. Compare unzipping moderately large source repos on windows vs. POSIX, it’s day and night.
No, it’s not NTFS, it’s the file system filter architecture of the NT kernel.
I had internalised that it was Windows Defender hooking every file operation and checking it against a blacklist? I've had it forced off for years.
Just deleting 40,000 files from the node_modules of a modest Javascript project can thoroughly hammer NTFS.
I think part of that is Explorer, rather than NTFS. Try doing it from the console instead. rd /q /s <dir>.
It still takes a lot longer than Linux or Mac OS X.
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