Re: datafiles and tempfiles

Well, as a Microsoft fan (sorry, Nuno!), I just want someone running ye olde NT 4 to do exactly the same test as I did and report the results. Then I can sleep at nights.

Cat with an attitude problem willing.

Regards
HJR "Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:3d217b5b$0$28005$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> In article <afrrs0$uof$1_at_lust.ihug.co.nz>, you said (and I quote):
>
> > realise too late that NT wouldn't know a sparse file if it came up and
hit
> > it with a mackerel.
>
> Sounds fishy, no? :-D
>
>
> > Yet I know for sure that the Hobart NT demo was about as successful as
me
> > doing my "juggling three swords and a firestick whilst doing trampoline
> > demonstrations" party trick. In other words, not very.
> >
> > Did things change between NT and W2K/XP?
> >
>
> Yes, they did. NTFS changed dramatically for 2K and once again for XP,
> although not by as much. Watch out for major differences too between XP
> Pro and the ".NET server"...
>
> I don't think your delay was caused just by Oracle formatting or not. I
> think it has to do with how NT's version of NTFS allocates a sparse file
> (it MUST write all the intervening blocks, like it or not) and how
> 2K/XP's version of NTFS behaves in such a situation.
>
> Don't you love the consistency of Microslop's naming? I mean, it's NTFS
> after all only because M$ claims so: they couldn't be more different!
>
> Mark Minasi pointed out this differences problem ages ago in NT
> magazine, when 2K came out. He got immediately blasted by Microslop, of
> course...
>
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam
Received on Tue Jul 02 2002 - 05:17:07 CDT