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Bug#704482: #704482 general: file copy over kde gui or cp to an usb devices (tried fat/ext3) is showen as finshed while it's still copying



On Sun 07 Apr 2013 11:14:14 Manuel Schmidt escribió:
> Hey,
> 
> > "I think it would be nice to have a progress bar that
> > would show the actual data transfer."
> >
> >There is, if you are using KDE and plasma. I think it's trough dbus, so
> >maybe it works in Gnome too.
> 
> Thats the point there is and its fine but its wrong for fat usb devices, i
> tested it now for cp because its easier to stop the time but its at this
> progress bar from kde the same So i copied a file with 1,5GB and the copy
> progress is "finished in 55sec" (command prompt comes back) but it isn't,
> you see that they device is still working for another 30sec (i have
> gkrellm where you see the datarate to devices) and in this time you can
> not unmount the device you get the error i posted in my last message. So
> kde and cp are showing a wrong state of coping file to fat usb devices.

There is no way KDE can know if the data from the kernel's buffers are already 
synced in the device. That's also a pro of having leds in them ;-)

> > But if it is at those both are not showing the correct state, doesn't
> > that mean that this will be at any data copying over usb?. So it's
> > something more generall then konquer? (which i do not use, i use
> > Dolphin)
> >
> >The correct state is being shown, so I don't see a problem here.
> 
> you tried it? for fat usb devices?

Yes, I use it everyday. I just wait until the led stop blinking :-)

For what is worth, i consider this bug as not a bug.

Kinds regards, Lisandro.

-- 
I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a
fundamental error.  Be thankful you are not my student.  You would not get a
high grade for such a design :-)
(Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds)

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
http://perezmeyer.com.ar/
http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/

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