Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.4.4) OS: Linux I tried to download a DVD ISO to a USB connected flash drive with FAT32 file system. The result was that my system was unusable with heavy IO load without any download progress until I killed kget. Could it be that before downloading kget tries to reserve a file of sufficient space on the target media? And could it be that this is impractical for direct download of hug files to a USB connected device? Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1) Connect USB flash device 2) Download e.g. http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/opensuse/distribution/11.3/iso/openSUSE-11.3-DVD-i586.iso directly to the device Actual Results: System under heavy IO load for several minutes Expected Results: Download starts immediately
Fat32 has a size limit of ~4GB, so this might be the reason. Could you try a different large file that is smaller than 4 GB?
Oops, I really tried to copy a DVD iso image to a VFAT file system. And yes, this makes kget (or a kio slave or whatever) do funny things. With smaller files (~1G) there's no such problem.
Ok, so I'll close this bug report. I will display an error-dialog for this case in the future. For general copy-operations related with the 4GB limit and VFAT see bug 198772.
SVN commit 1161757 by mfuchs: Respect the maximum file size limit of VFAT. CCBUG:245623 M +16 -0 datasourcefactory.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1161757
SVN commit 1161763 by mfuchs: Fowardport r1161757 and adds an error dialog. Respect the maximum file size limit of VFAT. CCBUG:245623 M +16 -0 datasourcefactory.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1161763
Ups, forgot to close the report.