On mer., 2010-05-26 at 23:06 -0400, John Lindgren wrote: > Package: thunar > Version: 1.0.1-4 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > When I'm copying a bunch of files from a fast file system (say, my hard > disk) to a slower one (say, an MP3 player), the progress bar that is > shown represents only the progress in reading the files, not writing > them. If the files are already loaded into cache memory (say, if I just > ripped them from a CD), the problem is even worse: the files are "read" > so quickly that no progress dialog is displayed. Thunar then locks up > unmounting the player, while all the files are written to disk, which > can be on the order of thirty seconds.
No, that's not a read/write problem. The progressbar *is* showing the write time, which is given originally by the filesystem. > > It seems that the files are merely being written to a kernel write > buffer; if so, the trivial fix would be to call fsync() before closing > each file that is written. I can't think of any reason not to do this. Because that would slow down everything, imho. What you really want is to mount your usb keys with the sync option. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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