[p4] Client-side file fragmentation on NTFS

[Frank Compagner]

Yes, we've done that, and it certainly gets rid of the fragmentation
problem. But it also creates a new one: as the proxy cannot run in
case-insensitive mode it will store different copies for files that
are capitalized differently. We have many files with lots of variation
in capitalization (an average of 3-4 per file!), so this reduces the
usefulness of the proxy considerably. As we're planning to move the
server to Linux we will have to fix this eventually, but for now
Windows proxies give much better results, even if they fragment a lot.

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Frank Compagner                                  Guerrilla Games

MS> You can run a Linux proxy against a Windows server and then you don't
MS> have to worry about defragmenting the proxy.

MS> -Mike