Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs

[Joerg Schilling]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 01/09/2018 01:38 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > If POSIX would allow such unexpected behavior, this would have been 
> > documented.
>
> I'm afraid we'll just have to agree to disagree here. Even if you expect 
> a particular behavior, it's not the behavior that I expect nor is it the 
> behavior that we actually observe. You can take up up with the POSIX 
> committee if you like; please reference this discussion so that they can 
> see the arguments on both sides.

You seem to missinterpret the facts. It seems that only btrfs behaves this way 
and this is still definitely an unexpected behavior.

Jörg

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