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Bug 330572 - Set "incomplete" (or equivalent) extended attribute with partial files
Set "incomplete" (or equivalent) extended attribute with partial files
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-02-09 20:52 UTC by Alexander “weej” Jones
Modified: 2018-09-21 16:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Alexander “weej” Jones 2006-02-09 20:52:25 UTC 
On file systems where it is available, it would be EXTREMELY useful if GNOME-VFS set a flag to alert applications that the file is "incomplete".

Example, transferring 20 large videos to your desktop from a folder on a network. They come in in any order, and as the thumbnails appear on your desktop you have no idea at all which ones are actually complete and ready to watch. If there was a flag set, Nautilus could put an "incomplete" emblem on the files perhaps, and you would know what was going on.

Does gamin/inotify have the ability to detect changes to extended attributes?

♥♥♥ GNOME 2.16 ♥♥♥
Comment 1 Alexander “weej” Jones 2006-06-05 00:03:04 UTC 
I might also add that this could be used to prevent thumbnailers from going ape-shit with your CPU when you're downloading 20 movies simultaneously.

Thanks
Comment 2 André Klapper 2008-09-06 18:54:53 UTC 
gnome-vfs has been deprecated and superseded by gio/gvfs since GNOME 2.22, hence mass-closing many of the gnome-vfs requests/bug reports. This means that gnome-vfs is NOT actively maintained anymore, however patches are still welcome.

If your reported issue is still valid for gio/gvfs, please feel free to file a bug report against glib/gio or gvfs.

@Bugzilla mail recipients: query for
      gnome-vfs-mass-close
to get rid of this notification noise all together.


General further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS 
Reasons behind this decision are listed at http://www.mail-archive.com/gnome-vfs-list@gnome.org/msg00899.html
Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2009-03-10 16:20:01 UTC 
Using an extended attribute for this would mean we have to read extended attributes for all files, which is a large slowdown for any filesystem that doesn't store extended atttributes in the inode though. We're basically doing an extra harddrive seek.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-09-21 16:14:37 UTC 
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