updatedb, makewhatis, everything is soooo slow

[Robert McNulty Junior]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Yes, that is the way how real filesystems are working.
>
> If one would use NTFS to run Linux on, the fast penguinIO would also be
> much slower.
>
>
> Gerrit

I knew that back when I had Mandrake 6.2. Kept wondering my Pentium 
compiled gcc 3.0 under cygwin for 8 hours, and it took 3 under linux.
With the hacker gone, took 40 minutes to compile 3..4.2 under cygwin.
On a 1.2 GHZ machine.