cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

Thu Jul 27 19:01:00 GMT 2006

aldana wrote:
> total commander is a clone of norton commander. something like midnight
> commander on linux.
>> i thought the same: choice between usb 1.x and 2.0 is done far lower level
> that cygwin can really influence it. but the difference of speed made me
> consipicious.
>> example, copying a single file (.tar.gz) of size ~70MB:
> with total commander it takes 20 sec.
> with cygwin it takes 4 minutes (!), which is plain too long to include it in
> my script.
>> i know through its abstracton layer cygwin must be slower. but regarding
> that slowliness could it be another reason? 

There could be. But why speculate? Write yourself a simple utility that uses
CopyFile() directly and see if that makes up the difference.
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