From: earnie_boyd@hotmail.com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: b19: unlink (and hence 16 Mar 1998 09:48:21 -0800 Message-ID: <19980314134356.25824.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com >To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com >Cc: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu >Subject: b19: unlink (and hence "rm") takes forever >Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:41:37 -0600 >From: Mumit Khan > >Anybody notice if unlinking or any other operation in a directory with >lots of files (say 600+) is *really* slow!! > >While building Win32 export libraries, I noticed that building >libkernel32.a etc was taking hours on a fast machine, which took >just a few minutes under b19. The culprit turns out to be "unlink", >and deleting the 650+ files just never finish on NT 4.0 FAT system. Watch out for that @#$@# "EA DATA. SF" file. My guess is that this is the real problem. I'd like some way to turn off the use of the Extended Attributes on an NT FAT. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd@hotmail.com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".