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I want to compress a folder using NTFS compression in .NET. I found this post , but it does not work. It throws an exception ("Invalid Parameter").
DirectoryInfo directoryInfo = new DirectoryInfo( destinationDir ); if( ( directoryInfo.Attributes & FileAttributes...
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Also, note that setting compression on a directory in NTFS does not compress allI don't believe there is a way to set folder compression in the .NET framework as the docs (remarks sure it works for you with....
On the directory.
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XP NTFS disk compression - reliable?
Any reason not to let NTFS compress an external HD used for backup?
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I have used it quite a lot in the past when disk, the compression ratio achieved is not going to be be worth the trouble since these file formats do not compress well....
Or reliability issues with the NTFS compression before.
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Should Flash Drives be formatted NTFS? What are the Pros & Cons of doing so?
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NTFS compression can give you more "space" on the drive by compressing filesYou can format....
You do get NTFS ACLs and compression with dashes in them).
Systems that don't support the NTFS filesystem, obviously.
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How would I create/ delete/ read/ write/ NTFS alternate data streams from .NET?
If there is no native .NET support, which Win32 API's would I use? Also, how would I use them, as I don't think this is documented?
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Streams can have compression, encryption and sparseness set on them independent of the default stream.
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We have an application that is planning to store around 1.1TB of XML files which average 8.5kb in size.
These represent a rolling 18 months of data, with around 200,000 new files being created every day.
Each file will be written only once, and then has...
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NTFS Performance Hacks Disable the NTFS Last Access....
Disable last access time stamp and reserve space for the MFT .
To disk as well?)
However
Windows NTFS file systems by default attempts to defragment file systems faster hard drives.
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We are using a rsync based backup for our Lonux servers which is fantastic. We rsync all our Linux server onto our large Linux base samba fileserver. Unfortunately that server is completely outdated and migrated over to Active Directory.
Now I'm stuck...
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Unlike.
Assumes that your backup software will take care of any delta/compression features you want...
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On a modern system can local harddisk write speeds be improved by compressing the output stream?
This question derives from a case I'm working with where a program serially generates and dumps around 1-2GB of text logging data to a raw text file on the...
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Just choose an compression algorithm and settings that make....
Windows already supports File Compression in NTFS, so allIf it's just text, then compression could definitely help.
In overhead as an example of this in practice.
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Is it true that newer Corsair SSDs have automatic hardware compression?
If so, there would be no point in using NTFS compression.
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Of the controller.
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My application writes some bytes of data to an alternate data stream. This works fine on all but one machine (Windows Server 2003 SP2). Instead, CreateFile returns ERROR_DISK_FULL when I try to create an alternate data stream (on the root directory). ...
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From Understanding NTFS Compression
You might want to see what something like Sysinternal's Process directory is limited....
Is to give the reader a more thorough understanding of what really happens when you compress NTFS files.
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To NTFS or not to NTFS that is the question. But unlike the deeper questions of life, this one isn't really all that hard to answer. For most users running Windows XP, NTFS is the obvious choice. It's more powerful and offers security advantages not found...
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