Table 5.1 in this article, and some surrounding description, indicate that ntfs converts to upper case when doing directory inserts, so if you want to optimize the disk order for the order processed by directory entry it seems toUpper would be a better choice.

http://members.fortunecity.com/clark_kent/exjobb/report3.html

A $UpCase Maps lowercase characters to their uppercase version, used when inserting files in a directory.

Maybe a more efficient ordering for a folder could be achieved by create zero length files for everything, then read back the ntfs directory entries, and use that order to expand the files.


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