Vinod Gupta wrote: > When I do "ls -lR /cygdrive/z" it takes very long. > There are only about 700 files on Z: totalling only 100 MB. When I > monitor network counters on laptop, I see that a whopping 90 MB were > downloaded for a payload (file list) of only 60 KB. Out of curiosity, I > did the same experiment between two linux machines configured as NFS > client+server. Perhaps more instructive would be to compare with typing "DIR Z:" in a DOS prompt. How much time does that take, and how much network traffic does it generate, by comparison? cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/