On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:50:14AM +0200, Yoni Londner wrote: >Hi, > > > I'm not exactly concerned about Linux being way faster accessing an NTFS > > drive. After all it's the OS itself and comes with it's own NTFS driver > > which obviously is streamlined for typical POSIX operations. > >I did not test & compare to using the Linux NTFS, rather I compared with >Linux on VMWARE using the same Windows NTFS.SYS (via the same >kernel32.dll APIs): > >Cygwin: "C:/cygwin/bin/ls.exe /bin" -> cygwin1.dll -> kernel32.dll -> >NTOS kernel -> NTFS.SYS driver -> HD > >linux: "/bin/ls /mnt/hgfs/C/cygwin/bin" -> glibc -> linux kernel -> >VMWARE hgfs driver -> vmware_player.exe (on Win32) -> kernel32.dll -> >NTOS kernel -> NTFS.SYS driver -> HD > >As you can see the VMWARE path is much longer than Cygwin, and it passes >the same APIs and NTFS.SYS driver, and yet it executes much faster. > >This helps us understand that there is a lot that still can be done in >Cygwin's filesystem performance.
What is /mnt/hgfs/C in this case? How is it mounted? cgf