Subject: Re: b19: unlink (and hence
From: [email-masked] (Earnie Boyd)

16 Mar 1998 09:48:21 -0800
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>To: [email-masked]
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>Subject: b19: unlink (and hence "rm") takes forever
>Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:41:37 -0600
>From: Mumit Khan <[email-masked]>
>
>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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