Re: Cygwin Filesystem Performance degradation 1.7.5 vs 1.7.7, and methods for improving performance

2010-09-28 Thread Warren Young
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

Re: Cygwin Filesystem Performance degradation 1.7.5 vs 1.7.7, and methods for improving performance

2010-09-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
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.

Re: Cygwin Filesystem Performance degradation 1.7.5 vs 1.7.7, and methods for improving performance

2010-09-28 Thread Warren Young
On 9/28/2010 9:10 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: 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 think it more likely that the HGFS driver doesn't try t

Re: Cygwin Filesystem Performance degradation 1.7.5 vs 1.7.7, and methods for improving performance

2010-09-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
It's time to move this discussion out of cygwin-patches and into cygwin-developers. I'd appreciate it if people continued over there. cgf