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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:23:21 -0500
From: Douglas Coup <dcoup@obj-sys.com>
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Subject: Performance of rm -rf
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Hello Cygwin community.

Back in November I had to replace my hard disk and re-install. Since 
then I've noticed that if I use rm -rf to delete a directory tree, the 
performance is significantly slower than before.

For example, deleting a 1.79 Gb directory tree with the DOS rmdir /s 
command takes less than 1 minute.  The same deletion with the Cygwin rm 
-rf command takes 16 minutes.

I've looked in the mailing list archives, but I didn't find anything 
relevant.

I'm running Windows 8.1.

Any thoughts as to where I might look?

Thanks!

Douglas Coup

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