Hi,
My desktop is the "Workstation Edition" and I use the files menu with copy and paste. In the case of interest (F26) the first 1.5 GB are copied very quickly (about 100MB/sec) then the copying process slows down to about 11MB/sec. After signalling completion I have to wait about 4 minutes untill I am allowed to eject. If this is normal, then OK, if not, possibly I should file a bug.
Kind regards



-----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
Von: Samuel Sieb <samuel@sieb.net>
An: test <test@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Verschickt: Mi, 26. Jul 2017 23:45
Betreff: Re: question to file copy to external media

On 07/26/2017 01:35 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 11:50 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> This is standard behaviour on all current operating systems. That is
>> why they all have the "eject" button for unmounting external media. The
>> reason is that the operating system buffers the data in memory and then
>> writes it to the device as fast as the device can accept it. This lets
>> whatever process is doing the writing to get on with other things
>> instead of having to wait for slow media. The unmount command waits for
>> all the cached data to be written to the device before unmounting. Then
>> you get a notification saying that you can remove it.
>
> I don't think it's "standard behaviour", no. I think quite a lot of
> file managers only copy synchronously, to avoid exactly this confusion.
> It would help if Joerg specified which desktop / file manager he's
> using?

Ok, then it used to be standard behaviour and I haven't paid attention
to it since then. :-) I will have to try it out, but I thought I saw
this with nautilus recently. _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org