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Re: updatedb, makewhatis, everything is soooo slow


Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

Yes, that is the way how real filesystems are working.

If one would use NTFS to run Linux on, the fast penguinIO would also be
much slower.


Gerrit

I knew that back when I had Mandrake 6.2. Kept wondering my Pentium compiled gcc 3.0 under cygwin for 8 hours, and it took 3 under linux.
With the hacker gone, took 40 minutes to compile 3..4.2 under cygwin.
On a 1.2 GHZ machine.




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