https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362288

            Bug ID: 362288
           Summary: Kate treats remote filesystems as locally mounted
           Product: kate
           Version: 3.13.2
          Platform: Mint (Ubuntu based)
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: grave
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kwrite-bugs-n...@kde.org
          Reporter: adr.fant...@gmail.com

When a file in a local file system is modified, Kate creates backup files. This
is fine.
When this happens for a remote filesystem (e.g. sftp), it does not do so,
because it would hugely slow down the saving if the network is slow or if the
ping is bad.

However, for many applications, remote filesystems can be mounted locally (e.g.
with SSHFS, NFS or similar). Kate will NOT recognize this, and treat the files
as locally mounted. This sometimes causes endless, minutes long delays (not
even being able to move the cursor) even when just entering a single character
and is short makes Kate completely unusable.

This is not a rare occurrence, but an extremely annoying bug which means Kate
cannot be used in business environments with networked user data.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mount a remote filesystem locally, usa a slow network
2. Edit a file with Kate
3. Experience the slowness

Actual Results:  
Kate freezes while trying to write the backup file

Expected Results:  
Kate should recognize, by looking at mount, fstab or mtab, that the current
filesystem is remote, and act accordingly

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