Re: Files full of zeros with coreutils-8.11 and xfs (FIEMAP related?)

Eric Sandeen
2011-04-14T16:32:49Z

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