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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:55:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Adam <adam@eax.com>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
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Subject: Re: 'holey files' not holey enough.
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> > 	[adam@pepsi /tmp]$  dd if=/dev/zero of=holed.file bs=1000 seek=5000 count=1000
> > 	[adam@pepsi /tmp]$ ls -l holed.file 
> > 	-rw-rw-r--    1 adam     adam      6000000 Nov 29 08:52 holed.file
> > 	[adam@pepsi /tmp]$ du -sh holed.file 
> > 	1.9M    holed.file
> 
> what filesystem type? on ext2 filesystem on 2.4.0-test12-pre3 I get
> expected result:

More datapoints. I have asked around, and I have two users of
2.4.0-test10. One is getting expected 1mb, other is getting (just like me)
1.9mb.

So far I don't see pattern, here. It does not seems to depend on block
size, nor packet writing patches.

-- 
Adam
http://www.eax.com      The Supreme Headquarters of the 32 bit registers


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