NTFS file system performance tweaking

[cyr0n_k0r]

Anyone know of methods to increase the performance of an NTFS file system?
I have come across this gem but haven't tested it yet.

: Disable short file name generation :
(Microsoft recommend when NTFS has more than 300,000 files on it)
http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2005/01/27/362105.aspx


EDIT: Here is another recommendation for ntfs file systems with large numbers of files.
Increase MFT zone percentage from default 12.5%
http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_optimization.htm

 

[mattjw916]

the only time I have "tweaked" a file system is when it involved a SAN and racks full of disks... even then it was limited to adjusting stripe sizes and a few other things

I've never seen anyone mess with NTFS directly other than cluster size.