On Feb 20, 2009, at 15:54 , Christian Ohm wrote:
On Friday, 20 February 2009 at 19:34, Cristian Greco wrote:
do you agree with closing this bug report with the next upload of the
library?
This bug is only related to the lack of documentation about the
storage_mode_allocate feature of the library, which has been fixed in
latest release.
Actually this bug was about the preallocation which didn't work (or
wasn't
meant to be implemented though the documentation told otherwise), so
changing
to "wishlist: allow file preallocation" would be better imo (and
perhaps also a
"qbittorrent: 'pre-allocate files' option doesn't preallocate files"
bug, since
that was what my original complaint was about).
Though now I don't really understand the difference between
storage_mode_sparse
and storage_mode_allocate. _sparse is the same as _allocate, except
that it
doesn't work on filesystems that don't support sparse files? Doesn't
really
make sense to have the two options then, imo (in addition to the
fact that the
name of _allocate is now a bit misleading).
FYI,
In trunk version of libtorrent, full file allocation is implemented on
windows (by not making files sparse), on BSD/Darwin by setting the
F_PREALLOCATE fcntl(), and on linux (or systems that don't have that
fcntl defined) by using posix_preallocate().
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Arvid Norberg
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