On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 11:50 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 07/26/2017 02:13 AM, Joerg Lechner wrote: > > I frequently copy files (Size about 2GB, sometimes 50 files of this size > > in one copying process) from my internal laptop disk (Win8.1) to an > > external media, usb flash drive or external disk. The copying progress > > is schown in the right upper corner of the display. When the display > > shows "copying is finished", the copying process is not really finished, > > it takes some additional minutes, before I can eject the external media. > > This appears in F24/F25/F26. This is confusing. > > This is standard behaviour on all current operating systems. That is > why they all have the "eject" button for unmounting external media. The > reason is that the operating system buffers the data in memory and then > writes it to the device as fast as the device can accept it. This lets > whatever process is doing the writing to get on with other things > instead of having to wait for slow media. The unmount command waits for > all the cached data to be written to the device before unmounting. Then > you get a notification saying that you can remove it. I don't think it's "standard behaviour", no. I think quite a lot of file managers only copy synchronously, to avoid exactly this confusion. It would help if Joerg specified which desktop / file manager he's using? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
