Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this just theoretical, or do you know of a file system type > that'd cause trouble (that doesn't support sparse files, yet for > which meta data can take up extra space)?
It's just a guess, I don't know of any example. It might well be that going from 64K to 128K on hfs could result in enough meta data to be allocated so that the total size rounds up to 129 (assuming that such meta data is actually accounted for in the stat data). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
