> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Deegan > Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:11 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/