KDE Optimizes How It Finds Mount Points - Up To 80% Speed-Up

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Optimizes How It Finds Mount Points - Up To 80% Speed-Up

KDE developers have been busy preparing for Plasma 6.2 with lots of bug fixing and polishing while also beginning to land some features for Plasma 6.3...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Faster-Mount-Points

[dumb ways to code]

That's great to see improvements in the lower level layers of KDE. Something as simple as just copying a file to a pendrive is often challenging to put it mildly, and based on the issues in the tracker these lower level layers are usually to blame.

[mos87]

only goes to show just how unoptimized this humongous hodgepodge of (sometimes buggy out of the box) features known as KDE is.

[Chugworth]

I'd like to see better behavior when dealing with dead mounts. The system shouldn't hang, although I know that's not entirely KDE's fault. I've tried setting various options in fstab and systemd, but nothing ever seems to totally resolve it. Generally it causes Dolphin to freeze up, or a reboot command to hang. I can't stand it whenever it takes takes longer than 5 seconds to get from the reboot command to the BIOS boot screen.

[cl333r]

I'd like to see better behavior when dealing with dead mounts. The system shouldn't hang, although I know that's not entirely KDE's fault. I've tried setting various options in fstab and systemd, but nothing ever seems to totally resolve it. Generally it causes Dolphin to freeze up, or a reboot command to hang. I can't stand it whenever it takes takes longer than 5 seconds to get from the reboot command to the BIOS boot screen.

What's a dead mount? Can I easily create one?

[DudeBro]

That's great to see improvements in the lower level layers of KDE. Something as simple as just copying a file to a pendrive is often challenging to put it mildly, and based on the issues in the tracker these lower level layers are usually to blame.

can you elaborate on that? I daily drive kde since before ubuntu and fedora even existed there where definetly some fuckups down the line like kwallet which i hate with a vangence but i cannot recall ever having trouble with copy pasting files

[dumb ways to code]

can you elaborate on that? I daily drive kde since before ubuntu and fedora even existed there where definetly some fuckups down the line like kwallet which i hate with a vangence but i cannot recall ever having trouble with copy pasting files

From the top of my head a few issues I had. Sometimes pendrives just don't appear, sometimes changing the port helps, sometimes it needs a reboot. A Linux-formatted exfat pendrive wouldn't mount once, it worked on Windows fine, re-formatting with NTFS using Linux helped. Copying files to my USB 2.0 pendrive is much slower than on Windows. The progress bar is overly optimistic, but then it gets stuck on 100% for very long time, like reaching 100% in 1 minute and actually finishing after 10 more. Nothing too critical, but the UX is generally bad and I never know when an adventure will unfold.

[Chugworth]

What's a dead mount? Can I easily create one?

A mount that is no longer accessible for one reason or another. Most commonly network mounts. For example, take a laptop connected to your local network and mount a path to a network share. Now take that laptop and switch from your local Wi-Fi to a network where network mount is not available, such as cellular tethering. Or just disconnect from Wi-Fi.

[Daktyl198]

From the top of my head a few issues I had. Sometimes pendrives just don't appear, sometimes changing the port helps, sometimes it needs a reboot. A Linux-formatted exfat pendrive wouldn't mount once, it worked on Windows fine, re-formatting with NTFS using Linux helped. Copying files to my USB 2.0 pendrive is much slower than on Windows. The progress bar is overly optimistic, but then it gets stuck on 100% for very long time, like reaching 100% in 1 minute and actually finishing after 10 more. Nothing too critical, but the UX is generally bad and I never know when an adventure will unfold.

Not to be that guy, but "works on my machine". Files copy much faster for me using KDE than Windows, and I've never had it hang at 100%. I have had the bug where a USB drive didn't show up until I rebooted my computer, but that was one time in KDE 5.x and I've not run into it before or since.

That being said, there's other really weird bugs with KDE that most people probably won't run into. E.g. I found a bug where the portals file picker can't submit more than like 1000 files at a time, or it borks itself and gives a weird error. Tried using the KDE portals file picker in Firefox and ran into that one.

[Firnefex]

only goes to show just how unoptimized this humongous hodgepodge of (sometimes buggy out of the box) features known as KDE is.

No, that shows how well optimised KDE is despite its many features.
It is a dream in comparison to that shitshow called Windows that I have to work with every day.