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

[Warren Young]

On 9/22/2010 7:44 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
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> What is /mnt/hgfs/C in this case?  How is it mounted?

HGFS is the Host-Guest File System, a VMware technology that lets it 
export host volumes to the guest in a high-speed way.

If you used old versions of VMware Workstation for Linux, you may 
remember that they used to ship a version of Samba to export Linux-side 
filesystems to the Windows guest.  Now they use their proprietary HGFS 
technology instead.  In addition to being smaller and faster than Samba, 
it works with all supported host and guest combinations, and it removes 
a dependency.

I believe Yoni's point is that the

     Linux guest -> HGFS/VMware -> Windows native

path apparently has less code in it than the

     Cygwin -> Windows native

code path.