Have another look at the Sun/Bugs link I provided in the original post
- it seems to be a 'known' problem, but Sun is either not willing or
not able to solve the problem.

On Jan 6, 11:40 pm, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I was surprised that there was a major difference between C and Java
> as I thought they would just be hitting the same native file system
> API anyway.  But, perhaps its not that simple..
>
> - are there different native APIs?
> - can they be accessed differently (does java force a network lookup
> while C gets a cached version)?
>
> I would suggest 20 secs vs 11 min means it is defiantly "down to the
> network" - round trips to the file server to get an attribute would
> blow the time out like that.
>
> On Jan 7, 3:28 am, John Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Alexey,
>
> > "maybe you should look at your network performance as well as compare
> > JVM's times against a non-JVM program."
>
> > That's what started me off. I have a C program which does a folder
> > sync in 20 seconds and my Java counterpart takes 11 minutes! So it's
> > not down to the network. (And the disks are all NTFS not FAT32.)
>
> > John
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