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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>, antonio@gnu.org
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, bug-tar@gnu.org,
	ahferroin7@gmail.com, adilger@dilger.ca
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] stat() on btrfs reports the st_blocks with delay (data loss in archivers)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 17:11:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <577D1FB3.3030708@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <577d1f11.ECLAA6oU6lhcCjFc%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>

On 07/06/2016 05:09 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> you concur that a delayed assignment of the "correct" value for
> st_blocks while the contend of the file does not change is not permitted.
I'm not sure I agree even with that. A file system may undergo garbage 
collection and compaction, for instance, in which a file's data do not 
change but its internal representation does.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-06 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-02  7:18 stat() on btrfs reports the st_blocks with delay (data loss in archivers) Pavel Raiskup
2016-07-04 19:35 ` [Bug-tar] " Andreas Dilger
2016-07-05  9:28   ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-06 11:37     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-07-06 11:49       ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-06 14:43         ` Antonio Diaz Diaz
2016-07-06 14:53           ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-06 15:01             ` Paul Eggert
2016-07-06 15:09               ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-06 15:11                 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-07-06 15:12             ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-07-06 15:22               ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-06 16:05                 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-07-06 16:11                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-07-06 16:33                   ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-06 17:35                     ` Andreas Dilger
2016-07-07  8:08   ` Pavel Raiskup
2016-07-11 14:41 ` David Sterba
2016-07-11 15:00   ` Chris Mason
2016-07-11 15:16     ` David Sterba
2016-07-11 17:30       ` Chris Mason

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