On 14/04/11 18:27, Jim Meyering wrote: > > FYI, I see the same failure now using ext3 (and but not w/ext4) > with rawhide's 2.6.39-0.rc2.git0.0.fc16.x86_64: > > + df -t ext3 . Not with ext3 ... > + mkfs -t ext4 -F blob ... but with ext4 loop back > + perl -e 'BEGIN { $n = 1 * 1024; *F = *STDOUT }' -e 'for (1..1) { sysseek (*F, $n, 1)' -e '&& syswrite (*F, chr($_)x$n) or die "$!"}' > + cp --sparse=always j1 j2 > + cmp j1 j2 > j1 j2 differ: char 1, line 1 <<<<================ But there was no preallocation done above. So this was the original sync issue, which doesn't seem to be working :( Is there a chance the rawhide kernel hasn't included that change? Unlikely as it's 2.6.39-rc2. cheers, Pádraig. p.s. I will do some checking with ext3 to ensure everything is OK _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs