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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>         address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:38:02 +0200
> 
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I'm not sure I understand the difference.  Could you give an example of
> > a filesystem that's slow but not "remote (a.k.a. networked)"?
> 
> Filesystems aren't slow, devices are.

Well, filesystems _shouldn't_ be slow, though some are ;-)

But yes, I agree that ``filesystem'' is a kind of misnomer, although
some filesystems are associated with very specific devices.