Package: mc Version: 3:4.7.0.8-1 Severity: normal When moving a directory to a different filesystem (ie, copy+delete), MC postpones deletion until after all copying is done. However, if there is some interruption, most likely due to target fs running out of space, MC will fail to do pending deletions of already completed files.
This causes duplicated files, and is especially painful when information about what has been moved and what not is important. All that MC offers is restarting the move from the very start, which is not a good idea for large transfers over slow links. Also, while such postponed deletion does improve performance for small and medium moves, it seriously degrades it when the tree is big enough to not fit in the VFS cache. Thus, a change I'd suggest is: * don't postpone more than, say, 1000 deletions * on an interruption, delete the pending completed files before aborting (the former may seem tangential, but in a tree that takes 10 minutes to delete, you don't want to block for long before displaying the error message) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mc depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpm2 1.20.4-3.3 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib ii libslang2 2.2.2-4 The S-Lang programming library - r Versions of packages mc recommends: ii mime-support 3.48-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap Versions of packages mc suggests: pn arj <none> (no description available) ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co pn catdvi <none> (no description available) pn dbview <none> (no description available) pn djvulibre-bin <none> (no description available) ii evince [pdf-viewer] 2.30.3-1 Document (postscript, pdf) viewer ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic" pn gv <none> (no description available) ii imagemagick 8:6.6.0.4-2.2 image manipulation programs pn links | w3m | lynx <none> (no description available) pn odt2txt <none> (no description available) ii perl 5.10.1-14 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii python 2.6.5-13 interactive high-level object-orie pn python-boto <none> (no description available) pn python-tz <none> (no description available) ii unzip 6.0-4 De-archiver for .zip files pn zip <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
