ls and completion very slow in root dir of a windows drive

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 6/23/2010 10:59 AM, Simon Brandner wrote:
> is it possible to find the reason for the high delay on my pc?
> I tried a strace ls. Its output is attached.
>
> the long delay is after the line:
> 15   21715 [main] ls 1960 time: 1277304158 = time (0)^M
>
> then comes:
> 21057910 21079625 [main] ls 1960 stat_worker: 0 = (\??\C:\cygwin1_7\cygdrive, 0x22C7E0)
>

This doesn't suggest anything to me, besides the obvious that it's slow
for you on this drive.  Does mounting it make any difference?

I don't believe we've seem your cygcheck output as requested by
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.

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A: Yes.
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