Re: [Mldonkey-users] alternate temp file system, plz

[Roland Arendes]

Hi Martin,

>> i've been just testing cvs 2.5-4 on cygwin... click on ed2k link (110MB)
>> and.... everything almost hangs because mldonkey writes empty bytes to /temp
>> directory... (FS : fat32).
>> clicking on ed2k links (!) with 700MB files: tragedy...
>> this happens also on  other filesystems... ( for example on ext2)
M> (this is for linux-mldonkey on ext2)
M> on ext2 this cant happen! the new created temp-file shows up as 700mb
M> but if you look at "df ." the bytes are not allocated at
M> once. mldonkey wont write empty bytes. if you start a download the
M> file gets created but not filled. it will be filled while
M> downloading. but i think on fat32 this is normal.

Yes, afaik FAT32 does not support sparse-files like NTFS/ext[23]/ReiserFS.
From my point of view there is no easy change for this problem without
breaking portability.

FAT32 shouldn't be used today anyway.

eMule and eDonkey/Overnet are causing very heavy fragmentation on these
volumes (faked sparse files).

-Roland