Comment 1 for bug 1378789

(wearing both my kubuntu and kde dev hat)

Super important bug. It can make IO come to a crawl making desktop systems unusable on rationale media, which in turn makes users unhappy, users complain to upstream, user complain to us, users complain to users. This is not good. It makes people waste time on a perfectly solvable issue, it annoys both upstream and kubuntu developers.
All in all this gives a bad impression and must absolutely be resolved, in particular since 14.04 is a LTS release. Having people's systems come to a crawl every once in a while until the next LTS comes out is absolutely not acceptable.