On Dec 13, 2006 08:40 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > This is probably a discrepancy that comes from reading the block device > directly, right? Which is not necessarily in sync with the address > space for the filesystem. In fact, the block device IS in sync with the filesystem address space, but only for metadata. The file data each has its own address space and is not coherent. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html