[Sugar-devel] [PATCH Browse] Cancel a download if space is very tight SL #394
Gonzalo Odiard
gonzalo at laptop.org
Wed Sep 12 08:29:07 EDT 2012
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Manuel Kaufmann <humitos at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > OK. I was taking a look at the datastore source code and I understood
> > that the file is copied, using the traditional way and when the copy
> > finishes the source file is unlinked.
>
> Ouch! I haven't reviewed the code (have to run some personal errands
> today, can't dig into it as I'd like), but if you are correct, there
> are two worries
>
> - Downloading a 100MB file needs >200MB+ free.
>
Yes, we need verify this.
> - All that passing around the file to update the percentage bar is
> causing pointless file copies -- if you are downloading a large file,
> it is pretty screwed.
>
>
I think the percentage is related to the metadata, no to the file size
change.
Gonzalo
> cheers,
>
>
> m
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