Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> writes:
> Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yes, on Btrfs I reliably see (st_blocks == 0) on a recently written,
>> mostly sparse file with size > 8G, using linux-libre-4.14.14. More
>> specifically, the "storing sparse files > 8G" test in tar's test suite
>> reliably fails on my system:
>
> Now many bytes have been written past the hole?
Did you read my entire message? The answer to your question was just a
few lines beyond the excerpt that you quoted above. I wrote:
>> Yes, on Btrfs I reliably see (st_blocks == 0) on a recently written,
>> mostly sparse file with size > 8G, using linux-libre-4.14.14. More
>> specifically, the "storing sparse files > 8G" test in tar's test suite
>> reliably fails on my system:
>>
>> 140: storing sparse files > 8G FAILED
>> (sparse03.at:29)
>>
>> The test creates a sparse file consisting of 8 gibibytes of hole
>> followed by 512 bytes of 'A's at the end. [...]
Mark
