On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 08:56:18AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 9/22/2010 7:44 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> What is /mnt/hgfs/C in this case? How is it mounted? > >HGFS is the Host-Guest File System, a VMware technology that lets it >export host volumes to the guest in a high-speed way. > >If you used old versions of VMware Workstation for Linux, you may >remember that they used to ship a version of Samba to export Linux-side >filesystems to the Windows guest. Now they use their proprietary HGFS >technology instead. In addition to being smaller and faster than Samba, >it works with all supported host and guest combinations, and it removes >a dependency. > >I believe Yoni's point is that the > > Linux guest -> HGFS/VMware -> Windows native > >path apparently has less code in it than the > > Cygwin -> Windows native > >code path.
It isn't extremely surprising that Linux access speed for a filesystem in a simulated environment, which presumably does not go through multiple layers of DLLs, would be faster than Cygwin. I wouldn't even be surprised to see that the old Samba implementation was faster. cgf
