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RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:11:49 -0700 |
> > Whether I access a local Windows drive (even a slow one) or
> > a Windows mapped network drive that happens to be in India,
> > there is a world of difference.
>
> No one in their right minds will mount a drive half the globe away via
> NFS or similar networking filesystem. They will always use something
> like Tramp or ftp. So this problem simply does not exist in practice.
I didn't say anything about NFS or similar; I mentioned Windows mapped network
drives.
I don't know what your idea of "does not exist in practice" is, but I work for a
fairly large corporation with developers and servers all over the planet, and
that is how we work.
I have mapped drives to UNIX and GNU/Linux machines (running Samba), and those
machines can be anywhere. In some cases, it is faster to access a machine far
away than a machine next door - it all depends on the particular network
properties in play (protocols, hardware, whatever). However, accessing a mapped
network drive is typically much slower than accessing a local hard drive (please
- no comments about USB sticks).
- RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, (continued)
- RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Drew Adams, 2008/04/20
- Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/20
- RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Drew Adams, 2008/04/20
- Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/20
- RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Drew Adams, 2008/04/21
- Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/21
- RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Drew Adams, 2008/04/21
- Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/21
- RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/21
- RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Drew Adams, 2008/04/22
- Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/22
- RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windowsmapped drive, Drew Adams, 2008/04/22
- Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windowsmapped drive, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/22
- RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Drew Adams, 2008/04/21
- Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Michael Albinus, 2008/04/21
- RE: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Drew Adams, 2008/04/21
- Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Michael Albinus, 2008/04/21
- Re: testing for a remote file to include file on a Windows mapped drive, Andreas Schwab, 2008/04/21