Stefan Krah added the comment: Thanks, this clears up the mystery! -- I made the mistake of choosing the eCryptfs-homedir option when installing Ubuntu, so now I have eCryptfs on top of LVM on top of full-disk encryption.
So I can't create sparse files in my home directory, but I *can* create sparse files with zero overhead in /tmp. The test suite runs smoothly from /usr/local. Should we perhaps create temp files in /tmp rather than in a subdir of the build directory? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24831> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
