database vs filesystem performance -> advocacy welcome!

[Marc Lijour]

> > Do you know how it does compare with MS NTFS?
>
> There may not be data integrity problems with NTFS, but the Windoze system
> using it might be a bigger problem!
>
> Sorry, this may be a biased opinion but I have seen so many performance
> problems with Windoze SQL Servers systems, even MS have difficulties in
> helping how to tune the software to make it perform acceptably, even on
> monster Wintel machines with huge memory.
> The same hardware with Linux and an open source RDBMS worked immensely
> better...

If you have some good links I could use, it would be my true pleasure to do a 
follow-up with my boss ;-)
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