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Comments on No. 19 of 155 · KDE Blogs · edition of Wednesday 28 October 2026

Fixing KIO copy to USB stick and network filesystems

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KDE's KIO, the layer under Dolphin, now makes copies to USB sticks and network shares finish when data is actually on the device, fixing a 2011 bug (281270) where progress only reflected the page cache. Méven Car's fix uses sync_file_range() with an adaptive writeback window, plus a final flush; moves keep sources until it succeeds. It ships in Frameworks 6.32. The performance figures, such as 1.7-second listings on a 5 MB/s SMB link, are the author's own measurements on one test setup.

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