Review Request: kio-file: sync file copy to /media/

[Davide Bettio]

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Timings of copy + umount (mean):
kde-cp (with kio patch): 39 seconds
cp: 24 seconds
kde-cp (without kio patch): 27 seconds


- Davide


On 2010-01-23 14:23:52, Davide Bettio wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-01-23 14:23:52)
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> Review request for kdelibs, Kevin Ottens and David Faure.
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> Summary
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> This simple patch allows file copy to external devices to be synchronous. This patch assumes that external devices are mounted on a subdirectory of /media/. If /media/ is not used this patch will not work so everything will be as before.
> For more dettails see also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195044.
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> Diffs
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>   /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kioslave/file/file_unix.cpp 1077183 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/2690/diff
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> Testing
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> This patch is recent, so I'm testing it right now. kio-file is a critical component so I will do more tests.
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> Checking for file corruption might be a good idea:
> dd if=/dev/full of=testFile count=numOfBlocks
> md5sum testFile
> Copy it, umount, mount and check the md5sum.
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> Thanks,
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> Davide
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