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

[Drew Adams]

> > 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.

I see (I think). I thought that the doc was saying that it should be non-nil
only for NTFS, which should be independent of whether the file system is local
or over a network.