From: Jan Hermelink (Jan.Hermelink_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-20 05:28:56
Russell Hind wrote:
> Peter Dimov wrote:
>>
>> No. 8.3 aliases are optional on NTFS and turning them off improves
>> the performance of the file system, sometimes significantly.
>>
>
> Do you have any links to documentation on this (MSDN or whatever?) I
> didn't realise you could disable that feature and would be interested
> to
> read about the advantages/disadvantages of doing so.
Sorry, no link. Bit I have described the registry value for this in my
other post.
You also can use the "fsutil" command:
fsutil.exe behavior query disable8dot3
queries your setting, and
fsutil.exe behavior set disable8dot3 1
disables 8.3 alias generation.
Jan