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Re: CygWin32 B19 over a Network Drive
- To: Ronald dot Pijnacker at best dot ms dot philips dot com, cygwin <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: CygWin32 B19 over a Network Drive
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 04:57:55 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---Ronald Pijnacker <Ronald.Pijnacker@best.ms.philips.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> For a while I am using CygWin32 B19.1 on a WindowsNT 4.0. We have
> set-up a small cvs-repository over a Network Drive. My experience with
> this is that accessing files and listing directories on the Networked
> drive is _much_ slower under cygwin32 than e.g. at the ms-dos command
> prompt. Is there a reason for this? Could I do anything about it?
Yes there is a reason, it is the UNIX filesystem emulation. This
causes 4 to 5 times more disk io. No, you can't do anything about it
if you want the UNIX filesystem emulation layer.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ronald Pijnacker
> rhp@iname.com
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