[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#583325: thunar: copying progress is misleading because files are not synced to disk
John Lindgren
john.lindgren at tds.net
Thu May 27 12:10:34 UTC 2010
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 08:07 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > 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.
Thunar doesn't provide such an option, as far as I know. (I am not
going to create an fstab entry for every removable disk I will ever
use.)
Peace,
John Lindgren
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