title: How to speed up vagrant shared folder speed
body: <p>I've been using vagrant on windows 8 running a centos VM for about a week. Because I found that there are numerous issues with running things in the centos virtual environment when dealing with files in the shared folder (/vagrant), I've set up a file watcher that updates files automatically when I change them in windows and writes to somewhere under /home/vagrant/ . That way I have my project purely in a centos environment with none of the oddities that happen in the shared folder.</p>
  
  <p>However, I've noticed that it takes about 15 seconds for files to sync. We're talking about files that are about 150 lines long or less - small files. 15 seconds is an eternity. So my questions are:</p>
  
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  <li>What in god's name is going on?</li>
  <li>How can I speed this up at all? Less than a second would be ideal.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>The edit/test cycle reminds me of compiling C code on Code Warrier. This is not what I want from a node.js workflow. Help is much appreciated!</p>