Subject: Re: CygWin32 B19 over a Network Drive
From: [email-masked] (Earnie Boyd)

29 Apr 1998 19:53:41 -0700
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---Ronald Pijnacker <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> For a while I am using CygWin32 B19.1 on a WindowsNT 4.0. We have
> set-up a small cvs-repository over a Network Drive. My experience with
> this is that accessing files and listing directories on the Networked
> drive is _much_ slower under cygwin32 than e.g. at the ms-dos command
> prompt. Is there a reason for this? Could I do anything about it?

Yes there is a reason, it is the UNIX filesystem emulation.  This
causes 4 to 5 times more disk io.  No, you can't do anything about it
if you want the UNIX filesystem emulation layer.

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> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ronald Pijnacker
> 	[email-masked]
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