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Why Disabling the Creation of 8.3 DOS File Names Will Not Improve Performance. Or Will It?

Written on Sep 22 2008 841 views, 0 comments


by Helge Klein

It is a common practice amongst administrators to disable the creation of short filenames on NTFS. I freely admit to have recommended this in the past. Was I wrong? Background NTFS is relatively relaxed about file names. They can be quite long (255 characters Read More...

Read the complete post at http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2008/09/22/why-disabling-the-creation-of-83-dos-file-names-will-not-improve-performance-or-will-it/







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