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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Subject: Re: Files full of zeros with coreutils-8.11 and xfs (FIEMAP related?)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:31:08 -0500
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On 4/14/11 11:28 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:

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> Yes, but we're still trying to find out what caused the zeros in the
> binaries that coreutils installed on my system.
> 
> Now the failure only happens when I use "gold" as my linker. With GNU ld
> everything is OK. But I thought this must be a timing issue, because
> gold is faster and the binaries in coreutils-8.11/src are all fine.

maybe xfs_bmap (or filefrag) of the binaries with both linkers would be instructive; are they laid out significantly differently?

does gold preallocate?

-Eric