[Thunar-dev] Minor things part $PREVIOUS++

Harold Aling h.aling at home.nl
Thu Mar 9 23:37:14 CET 2006


>
>> I get this error after Thunar has copied xx% of the file and can't write
>> the rest of it.
>>     
>
> Ah, you mean, Thunar should first check whether enough space is
> available? Well, even if you ignore the numerous race conditions that
> would arise here, you'd still be unable to reliably detect whether or
> not enough space is available (i.e. different block sizes, available
> inodes, user/group quotas, etc.). Thunar would probably reject to copy
> files based on its estimation, while it would in reality be possible to
> copy the files. Even if it would be possible to take care of all
> conditions on all supported platforms, it'd require atleast a year or
> two to come up with a working implementation. Really not something I'd
> want to waste my time with.
>   

Oops, sorry... Since Thunar is able to report free space on a mount, i 
thought it shouldn't be that difficult to implement a 'cancel/continue 
anyway' dialog...

> Benedikt
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