Re: Request for running a test application

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> It *is* interesting, thank you.
> 
> Anybody else running a different ramdisk?

Yes.  I use Farstone Virtual Hard Drive Pro (a very stupid product name
if you ask me, but there you go) and the results are below.  I am
guessing the bulk of the difference is due to this being formatted NTFS
not FAT.  Frankly having a FAT formatted ramdisk seems like a big waste
of memory as with NTFS you can enable compression on the whole volume,
though oddly even when you do that the VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED flag is
still FALSE.

Device Type        : 7
Characteristics    : 120
Volume Name        : <FSRAMDISK>
Serial Number      : 3569881239
Max Filenamelength : 255
Filesystemname     : <NTFS>
Flags              : 700ff
  FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : TRUE
  FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
  FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK        : TRUE
  FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS        : TRUE
  FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION       : TRUE
  FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS          : TRUE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : TRUE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: TRUE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
  FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS    : TRUE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION    : TRUE
  FILE_NAMED_STREAMS          : TRUE
  FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME       : FALSE
  FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE  : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS  : FALSE

Brian

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