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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
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Subject: RE: Can cygwin create a ramdisk which is a cygwin filesystem?
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 02:30:19 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of William Deegan
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:11 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Can cygwin create a ramdisk which is a cygwin filesystem?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> As I understand it cygwin access to NTFS is slow for various reasons.
> For my purposes a filesystem on ramdisk managed by cygwin 
> would work just fine.
> Is that possible?
> 
> -Bill
> 

Cygwin's access to an NTFS partition is not particularly slow in general.
Some operations have to go through some contortions to make things look
Unixy, which slows them down, but those are mainly related to permissions
and such.  Unless you're actually having some sort of showstopping disk
speed problems, I'd just stick to normal NTFS partitions and not worry about
a few percentage points of speed.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 


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