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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 09:43:03 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: Mathis Severin <Severin DOT Mathis AT swisslife DOT ch>
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Subject: Re: Accessing local hard disks
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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

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