On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:31:44AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > +# > > +# This test is successful when the following conditions are met: > > +# - ls shows that the number of blocks occupied by the file > > +# has decreased by the number of blocks punched out. > > There's no guarantee that a filesystem will punch the number of > blocks you expect. Cluster allocated filesystems like ocfs2 are certainly going to punch some multiple of clusters, not exact blocks. Eg if the hole is punched in the middle of a cluster. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #464 "Don't miss the magic of the moment by focusing on what's to come." http://www.jlbec.org/ jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html