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

On 9/22/2010 7:44 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

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.

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