Re: Willing to debug bug #3542 (23.0.94; File access via UNC path slow again under Windows)

[Jason Rumney]

Drew Adams wrote:
> > Hmm... There is a suggestion to use it only on fast machines at the
> > same time it is turned on by default. Shouldn't it be the other way
> > around? Btw, I consider my machine to be quite fast even though it is
> > a couple of years old.
> >
> > I suggest we change the default value of this variable to nil (or make
> > the code faster).
> >     
>
> Dumb question: Is there a way for Emacs to know whether the format is NTFS or
> FAT(32)? If so, then Emacs could use nil for FAT volumes.
>   
That suggestion dates back to the days when "fast machines" were running 
at 200MHz or so. The problem here is not the speed of the machine, but 
the network.  The default value of w32-get-true-file-attributes is 
'local, which means nil when going across the network, but apparently 
that is not being recognized in all places - which I think is what Eli 
is investigating.