X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4582C6BE.3020800@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:01:02 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Nfs server and rsync References: <5hhatv$e79g4@mxr02.yamaha.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <5hhatv$e79g4@mxr02.yamaha.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Ulf Stoermer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running the universal NFS server 2.3 on a WinXP box > and nfs-mount a directory from a Linux box. Then, from the > Linux box I use the rsync command to copy a file tree from > the local Linux drive to the nfs-mounted directory. > > I'm transferring about 4GB of data and of course I don't expect > any marvelous performance, but still, it takes hours. > > During the transfer I noticed that bascially during all the time > the floppy led of the Cygwin machine is switched on and very > often I can hear the clicking noise for attempted floppy access. > > So I guess it's the constant floppy access that makes my > transfer so terribly slow. On the other hand, why does the > floppy get accessed all the time in first place? Is it nfs-server > who does the floppy access and why? > > If anyone can shed some light on this or point out where to > have a closer look at. Any comment is greatly appreciated. Perhaps you can tell us more about your system and what command-line you're using to do the copy. Take a look at the link below for some specific guidelines: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/