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File fragmentation.
Extensive file activity can lead to thousands of fragment per file, over time. This cannot help performance and could lead to problems. In lieu of a script to periodically verify and (if no errors found) export and re-import all of the files for all version and application or database and application combinations or the pain of full backup and restore, some use Executive Software's DiskKeeper product to do this task, say, after every full nightly backup.

ASI has not tested and in no way warrants this software.

Bruce Johnston Jan 14, '04: Related to the file system under Windows NT, you may want to consider preventing the O/S from updating one of the file/folder attributes that, by default, is updated EACH AND EVERY TIME THAN IT IS ACCESSED FOR WHATVER REASON. APPX installations have easily have tens of thousands of files and folders lurking beneath \APPX\Data and asking the O/S to update the file system with the information doesn't really seem worth it IMHO.
Reg Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem Procedure: Add Value name NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate of type REG_DWORD. Set it to 1 to prevent the LastAccess time stamp from being updated.
Under Windows 2000 (and ???) you might also want to consider disabling the NTFS disk file indexing at at least the \APPX\Data level and include the subdirectories. How often are you really going to search the drive/data for "foobar" from the server console?
You might want to refrain from doing this if you actually use APIs to dig out this information or if your APPX server is doing other things as well. I've had this set for years now with not observed ill effects.

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