Look at using the NTFS MFT to speed up scans - Githubissues

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WinDirStats - Windows Directory Statistics, private clone from:

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Look at using the NTFS MFT to speed up scans #164

Open avogelba opened 7 years ago

avogelba commented 7 years ago

Originally reported by: Anonymous

WinDirStat has been receiving a lot of hate as of late from Reddit's sysadmin community due to the slowness of the app vs alternatives.

The key difference between WinDirStat and the favored alternatives is that WinDirStat manually gathers information by means of looping? whereas the alternatives are reading files and folders from the NTFS MFT.

I propose looking at incorporating this project to speed up the process of reading from the MFT: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsreader/

Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/windirstat/windirstat/issue/164

avogelba commented 7 years ago

Original comment by ender997 (Bitbucket: ender997, GitHub: Unknown):

Performance is an issue. This is the way forward.