On Sunday, 8 April 2012 at 01:18:49 UTC, Jay Norwood wrote:
in it. Same 3.7 second delete. I'll have to analyze what is
happening, but this is a huge improvement. If it is just the
sequential LCN order of the operations, it may be that I can
just pre-sort the delete operations by the file lcn number and
get similar results.
I ran rmd in the debugger to look at the order of entries being
returned from the depth first search. The directory entry list
returned is sorted alphabetically the same whether or not the
sortByName() defrag script has been executed.
This article confirms that directory entries are sorted
alphabetically.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995846.aspx
"Directory entries are sorted alphabetically, which explains why
NTFS files are always printed alphabetically in directory
listings."
I'll have to write something to dump the starting lcn for each
directory entry and see if the sortByName defrag is matching the
DirEntries list exactly.
