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XADM: NTFS Compressed Volume Causes Store to Fail

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This article was previously published under Q170009

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Symptoms

On a compressed NTFS partition, the Microsoft Exchange Server information store, may get corrupted when its size reaches about 4 gigabytes (GB). This can cause failure of the information store.

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More information

A compressed NTFS partition can adversely affect the Microsoft Exchange Server by causing one or more of the following problems:

  • High CPU utilization.
  • Enumeration of large NTFS directory may take a long time.
  • Degradation of NTAS server with NTFS partition that includes many Files.
For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
128447� Enumeration of Large NTFS Directory Takes a Long Time

130839� NTFS Performance Problem with Many Files

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Keywords: KB170009, kbprb

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Article Info
Article ID : 170009
Revision : 7
Created on : 2/22/2007
Published on : 2/22/2007
Exists online : False
Views : 492