> Though, did I get the right impression that NTFS generates lots of > extents for small writes even when nothing else is running?
The fragmentation on NTFS was a problem even when nothing else was running on the server. The preallocation patch made all the difference on NTFS and cygwin. In that world it is a must have since it increases performance on the reads by orders of magnitude while not impacting the write-side since the cygwin posix_fallocate is very efficient. Rob -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
