From 872956e3f494be18a3675caebcadaa1578b900af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arvid Norberg Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:12:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] fix documentation regarding storage_mode_allocate --- docs/manual.rst | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/manual.rst b/docs/manual.rst index 57fb0ad18..45bb6f6ea 100644 --- a/docs/manual.rst +++ b/docs/manual.rst @@ -318,9 +318,12 @@ storage_mode_sparse will be used. This is the recommended, and default mode. storage_mode_allocate - All pieces will be allocated, zeroes will be written to the files, before - the data is downloaded and written to the file. This might be useful for - filesystems that don't support sparse files. + Same as ``storage_mode_sparse`` except that files will be ftruncated on + startup (SetEndOfFile() on windows). For filesystem that supports sparse + files, this is in all practical aspects identical to sparse mode. For + filesystems that don't, it will allocate the data for the files. The mac + filesystem HFS+ doesn't support sparse files, it will allocate the files + with zeroes. storage_mode_compact The storage will grow as more pieces are downloaded, and pieces