Re: [boost] Boost.Filesystem i18n mini-review

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-20 05:17:12

Russell Hind wrote:
> Peter Dimov wrote:
>> 
>> No. 8.3 aliases are optional on NTFS and turning them off improves
>> the performance of the file system, sometimes significantly.
> 
> Do you have any links to documentation on this (MSDN or whatever?) I
> didn't realise you could disable that feature and would be interested
> to read about the advantages/disadvantages of doing so.

I've never done this myself, but see for example

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q121007/