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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Remove nonportable check for files containing only

From: Joerg Schilling
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Remove nonportable check for files containing only zeroes
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:32:59 +0100
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Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> 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?

Jörg

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