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Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:49:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: slow 'rm -rf' behavior on network drive
To: eck douglas <Douglas DOT Eck AT nm02cpg DOT mot DOT com>,
        "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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--- eck douglas <Douglas DOT Eck AT nm02cpg DOT mot DOT com> wrote:
> I was cleaning house on a fairly slow windows NT network drive and noted
> that rm -rf (B20.1 under bash) is vastly slower than using explorer and
> deleting
> the same (copied) large directory.  I didn't have time to do a set of tests,
> but
> the time difference is obvious
> 
> Any ideas? Enhancements?


Just take a look at the code behind the mapping and remapping of the cygwin
mounted directories as well as the inode emulation and other things.

Yes, it's going to be slower, but that is a good price to pay for simplicity in
porting already written code.
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