https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482495
Simon Persson <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever confirmed|0 |1 Status|REPORTED |CONFIRMED --- Comment #1 from Simon Persson <[email protected]> --- After looking in to how this would work, I came to the conclusion that it is possible but not easy. Kup allows users to exclude folders. It allows including folders inside of excluded ones. It allows supplying regexp patterns for files and folders to exclude. A completely custom directory traversal that takes these in to account would be needed to calculate the storage requirement. Therefore I started thinking about a simpler best-effort space check. But false positives (detecting problem when there actually is no problem), even if rare, I think is unacceptable. The user would be stuck with this "stupid software" not letting the user do what they know works. Unless we also add some "Try anyway" button when informing about the problem. I don't like that idea. So better would be to actually dig into it and make a correct space requirement. I agree that it would be nice to have but effort/benefit is making me not want to do it myself. If somebody wants to work on it, you are welcome to. Also, bup type of backups are even worse in complication... so good thing this bug report only talks about rsync. :) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
