Rutger Nijlunsing wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:55:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:07:07PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote: >> >>>filesystem is slow and locked down, and exec-attribute is NOT really >>>useful even on NTFS (it is somehow related to execute permission and >>>open files. I still cannot figure out how exactly are they related). >> >>Again, it's not clear if you're talking about Windows or Cygwin but >>under Cygwin, in the default configuration, the exec attribute means the >>same thing to cygwin as it does to linux. > > > I don't know about native Windows speed, but comparing NutCracker with > Cygwin on a simple 'find . | wc -l' already gives a clue that looking > at Cygwin to benchmark NT file inspection IO will give a skewed > picture: > Well, naturally. Cygwin is a userland implementation of a sane filesystem on top of a less sane one. File IO is bound to be slower when one FS is emulated on top of another. I think cygwin users are aware of this and simply accept the speed-for-sanity tradeoff. I know I would. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon Feb 27 20:20:38 2006
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