I know this is a bit complex to work-around, but we could hack Nautilus to work around this whenever it encounters a VFAT volume.
If I understand correctly, Nautilus uses the statfs call to determine the free space on the drive, to show it on the bottom of the window. I would suggest that Nautilus start a new thread to call statfs; since other programs can read the drive contents correctly, I suppose Nautilus should be able to do the same. It would work as usually, minus whatever the statfs call is needed for, until the separate thread finishes the call. I know this is complicated and probably not worth it, I just wanted to have the suggestion. Otherwise, I strongly advise to revert the patch with data-loss possibility. The delay after mount is annoying, but it's less than a minute long and it only happens at mount time, I think it's much less annoying than loosing files and locking up randomly. -- nautilus hangs on accessing vfat drives - statfs() blocks for a long time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133567 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
