From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Willing to debug bug #3542 (23.0.94; File access via UNC path slow again under Windows) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 09:11:10 -0700 Message-ID: <7DAFC004A33C486A9E29A59689E7F02E@us.oracle.com> References: <7dbe73ed0907051401o26903ca3t9a67060f3a3417ad@mail.gmail.com> <83fxda1pef.fsf@gnu.org><7dbe73ed0907060038w53699f77ie742996955ae8118@mail.gmail.com> <838wj11sz4.fsf@gnu.org> <83my7fz09s.fsf@gnu.org><7dbe73ed0907081347q12dfd1a2lbbff915c49362f75@mail.gmail.com> <4A55D68D.8050407@gnu.org> <7dbe73ed0907090453s3e125b4ar142b90a268b105e2@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247156975 3418 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2009 16:29:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Mathias Dahl'" , "'Jason Rumney'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 18:29:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MOwUx-00053a-NT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:29:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43330 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOwUx-00032L-0V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOwDT-000581-2Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOwDN-0004xu-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45789 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOwDN-0004xc-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:11:17 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:36234) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MOwDJ-00049i-BP; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:11:14 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by acsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n69GAwe3023680 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:10:59 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt009.oracle.com (abhmt009.oracle.com [141.146.116.18]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n69GCvuU013396; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:12:57 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:11:07 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0907090453s3e125b4ar142b90a268b105e2@mail.gmail.com> Thread-Index: AcoAjNfVttf+xMzPR8a1HPvSC94chAAIlezQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: abhmt009.oracle.com [141.146.116.18] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010205.4A56169C.006B:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112247 Archived-At: > "If the variable w32-get-true-file-attributes is non-nil (the > default), Emacs tries to determine the accurate link counts for files. > This option is only useful on NTFS volumes, and it *considerably slows > down Dired and other features*, so use it only on fast machines." > > 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. (If not, it seems like nil would be the best default value.)