Copy files to xfs filesystem in nautilus = VERY SLOW!

[Qishuai Liu]

It takes a very long time to copy files to xfs filesystem in nautilus. It's quick if I use cp command or other filesystems.

Steps to reproduce:
1. make a xfs filesystem and mount it to /target
2. open nautilus, copy a big file from somewhere and paste it to /target
3. it's VERY SLOW!

[matyk (matk)]

I can confirm this bug. Have the same problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Do you have the same issue if you use gnomevfs-copy from the command line?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

how slow is the very slow? could you get the speed from the command line and from nautilus to compare?

[matyk (matk)]

Im using edgy. In dapper i did not have this problem.
Slow means that i need about 3 minutes for a 650mb file instead of 15 seconds while copying onto a ext3 filesystem or via command line or midnight commander onto xfs.
And yes, the problem exists when copying via gnomefvs-copy.

[Xiao Feng (xiaofeng+launchpad)]

I am also having similar. Same setup, XFS file system. Its way way slower to copy/move using Nautilus. No problem using cp/mv and Midnight Commander (mc). I notice Gnome Commander is also having the same problem.

[Robin (robot999)]

confirmed. Please fixed as soon as possible.
It's impossible to work on GUI if this bug exist.

[matyk (matk)]

This doesn't seem to be a ubuntu specific problem. I found this also in fedora core 6. So this problem is gnome specific. Look here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363400 and confirm.

[NNois (noel-froger)]

Same here... It's so annoying I have to use thunar instead of nautilus

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Fixed Upstream.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the bug:

 gnome-vfs2 (1:2.18.1-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
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   * New upstream version:
     - Handle avahi being shut down better
     - Performance fix for xfs filesystems (Ubuntu: #58672)

[Rafael Guerra García (pepevilluela)]

I have Ubuntu Feisty and i noticed that when copy start if i change the target directory in nautilus, the copy speeds up. I usually check this with movies, or pictures. I think nautilus is reading movie information to generate thumbnails while the copy is writing. This is not good in external drives (try to make two copies at same time and see how the time to copy increases)