From:	earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: b19: unlink (and hence
16 Mar 1998 09:48:21 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<19980314134356.25824.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
To:	khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

>To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>Cc: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu
>Subject: b19: unlink (and hence "rm") takes forever
>Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:41:37 -0600
>From: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
>
>Anybody notice if unlinking or any other operation in a directory with
>lots of files (say 600+) is *really* slow!!
>
>While building Win32 export libraries, I noticed that building
>libkernel32.a etc was taking hours on a fast machine, which took
>just a few minutes under b19. The culprit turns out to be "unlink",
>and deleting the 650+ files just never finish on NT 4.0 FAT system.

Watch out for that @#$@# "EA DATA. SF" file.  My guess is that this is 
the real problem.  I'd like some way to turn off the use of the Extended 
Attributes on an NT FAT.




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