| delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi | search |
Mathis Severin wrote: > > Hello > > For accessing local hard disk there are several possibilities. To make the > task easy you can mount the different disks into the Cygwin file system or > you can create symbolic links in the root of the file system using > /cygdrive/c. > > My questions are: > - Which is the prefered way to choose ? There's no explicit `prefered' way. You may do it as you want. Personally I prefer mounting: - Mounting is more predictable. I can see my mount table in one call to `mount' while I would have to search for every single symlink by myself. - I can decide about the mount mode (text/binary) of the file system. > - What is the difference between these two solutions (pros and cons) ? Same as above, IMO. Pros for mounting, cons for /cygdrive symlinks. > - Concerning performance, in what cases is the symbolic link the worse > solution ? (Only when the link has to be resolved or even when a linked > drive is the current working directory) Try it. Symlinks should be slower in either case but I can't remember of any published performance measurement. > - When defining the symbolic links, what is the difference between using > /cygdrive/c and //c ? The //c syntax is deprecated since it collides with the //server/share syntax. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Red Hat, Inc. mailto:vinschen AT cygnus DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
| webmaster | delorie software privacy |
| Copyright © 2019 by DJ Delorie | Updated Jul 2019 |