From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Berny Subject: Re: File copy problems kde 4.5 to 4.6.1 with reiser4 Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:38:47 +0000 Message-ID: <4D7774D7.3030908@dwami.com> References: <201103090918.47762.berny@dwami.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org On 03/09/2011 10:32 AM, Serkan Kaba wrote: > 2011/3/9 berny=AE: >> Hi Edward, >> first thank you for your work. >> >> I'm using reiser4 for all my partitions on my working machine with k= ernel 2.6.37 with no problems >> except one annoying one that is going on from months. >> When I copy a file (whatever) from one directory to another with kon= queror, dolphin or krusader with >> kde 4.6.1 the file get copied, it's size is correct but it is empty. >> >> This happen only in the partitions formatted with reiser4 and not on= the xfs, reiser3 ones. >> >> >> Thank you, >> warm regards, >> Paolo >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-d= evel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > I suspect that it's similar to what I experienced with gnome upgrade > back in time. My problem was due to issues in splice code path which > GNOME switch to for file copying along the way. I already reported > this to GNOME [1] as well as this ML [2,3]. The issue appearing in > only uncompressed partitions is interesting, Edward already asked me > if mine was, which isn't. My current workaround is to use a patched > version of glib (part of gnome libs) that avoids using splice for > reiser4 targets. If you have a KDE bugzilla account, can you also > provide them links for discussions in the list as well as the GNOME > bug? > > 1: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D615346 > 2: http://marc.info/?l=3Dreiserfs-devel&m=3D127096098705179&w=3D2 > 3: http://marc.info/?l=3Dreiserfs-devel&m=3D129275181431455&w=3D2 > -- So it seems that also kde probably use this library to splice data from= =20 a pipe, I saw that it seemed resolved in 2.6.36 but it is here again in= =20 2.6.37. I read your links, very good information. I never know that kde was using this splice for copying things. Sorry but I'm not member of kde bugzilla, I was simply searching for=20 information. The problem is that only reiser4 exhibit this problem on my system so I= =20 guessed that was a problem of this file system, this is the reason=20 because I didn't fill a bug on the other bugzilla. Thanks, Paolo > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-de= vel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-deve= l" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html