NTFS compression question

ccnpninja

Hi,

What may be the advantage of compressing a folder with NTFS and keeping its subfolders and files without NTFS compression ?

Mishra

shadowman724 wrote:

Hi,

What may be the advantage of compressing a folder with NTFS and keeping its subfolders and files without NTFS compression ?

The files in the subfolders may need the performance of non-compressed files.

Example might be...

c:\application\bigfile.txt
c:\application\readme.txt
c:\application\database\onlinedatabase.edb

You see that the database is located in a subfolder which needs good read/write performance. So you would compressed the files under application but not the database subfolder.