Cygwin Filesystem Performance degradation 1.7.5 vs 1.7.7, and methods for improving performance

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Sep 30 14:31:00 GMT 2010


On Sep 30 16:13, Derry Shribman wrote:
> Beyond that: it has already been tested: many people mount with
> ihash (which means no ino/nlink), and nearly all the applications
> work without any problem.

How do you know that?  This option has never been discussed on the
Cygwin ML and the ihash option is new since 1.7.6, and it has been
documented to workaround broken file systems, not as an all-purpose
performance mount option, which it isn't.


Corinna

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