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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Option to preallocate disk space when coping files

« on: September 17, 2015, 09:38:15 »

Hello!!!

But one think that will make more of a different is the option to preallocate the target file. Most filesystem support that now and that is an option that is coming. This will tell the filesystem before the data is written that the file is for example 100MB, and the filesystem will create an empty 100MB file directly that the data is then written into. (since it gets a hint of the final size the filesystem can find a large enough block range for the entire file directly)
However there are some issues with this on some filesystem and network location so this option will not be on by default.

http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php?topic=1147.0
Any news about this option?