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Author SHA1 Message Date
Nick Craig-Wood
a492c0fb0e local: speed up multi thread downloads by using sparse files on Windows
Before this change rclone didn't use sparse files on Windows. This
means that when you downloaded a file with multithread download it
wrote the entire file with zeros first on the first write not at the
start of the file.

This change makes the file be sparse on Windows. Linux/macOS files
were already sparse.
2020-03-09 10:55:52 +00:00
Nick Craig-Wood
f29c6049fc local: preallocate files on Windows to reduce fragmentation #2469
Before this change on Windows, files copied locally could become
heavily fragmented (300+ fragments for maybe 100 MB), no matter how
much contiguous free space there was (even if it's over 1TiB). This
can needlessly yet severely adversely affect performance on hard
disks.

This changes uses NtSetInformationFile to pre-allocate the space to
avoid this.

It does nothing on other OSes other than Windows.
2018-09-19 16:04:57 +01:00