[p4] Client-side file fragmentation on NTFS

[paul goffin]

There's an undocumented option to run Linux servers in
case-insensitive mode.

Although the proxy doesn't have the option, it may be worth
asking support about this as it might be something on
the horizon.

Paul.

Quoting Frank Compagner <frank.compagner at guerrilla-games.com>:

> 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.
>